Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...discovered a method for making the elective system work better than getting people to vote. Most students will vote for the man upstairs, or the eager characters across the hall. That is fine--at least they know their classmates. Too many do not, and so do not vote at all. They could talk to a few candidates and pick a favorite. It wouldn't hurt...
...week, left about $3,000 to the New York Newspaper Guild (of which she was not a member) to perpetuate the Pure Language League by distributing pamphlets. Said the Guild's Executive Vice President Tom Murphy: "Well, we've got the money, but I don't know what the hell we're going to do with...
There was hardly anybody who did not know somebody who had made a killing in the market. And last week, exactly 20 years after the era of wonderful nonsense suddenly collapsed, there was hardly anybody in Wall Street old enough to remember, who did not shiver a bit at the memory of October...
...most of you know, I have devoted a third of a century to our industry . . . Yet at this time, when the industry demands and requires a fixed habit of production economy, seems I can't get a job . . . Must we always wait until a productive pioneer is found dead in some 'obscure Hollywood hotel room' before you reflect upon an 'indifferent and forgetful' industry...
Bradshaw added, however, that "employers . . . are interested, as always, in men who know what they want to do and why they want...