Word: knowes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that they really did not know where Chairman Owen D. Young might be. This fact, convenient, frustrated for a time all efforts to confirm the flat statement of M. Poincaré that Mr. Young would positively sit on the Committee of Experts...
...came, checked in at the Biltmore, began the theoretically obscure existence of a private citizen. The theory, however, proved unsound. Newspaper men, camera men, came to the Biltmore. They came to the Prudence Building, Madison Avenue and 43rd Street, where Mr. Smith had opened an office.* They wanted to know what Mr. Smith was going to do now. Annoyed, Mr. Smith said that he had no announcement to make, that he did not desire daily visits from the press, that he hoped he would not be asked to confirm such rumors as the possibility of his accepting a position...
Throughout the U. S. smart citizens and radio listeners know that Tycoon Young is Chairman of General Electric Co. and Chairman of Radio Corp. of America. Out on the farm in Van Hornesville, N. Y., where he was born, and where he now raises prize cattle, rustics know Mr. Young as a tall, deliberate, loosely built man of 54 who was once a lazy plowboy.* Gaffers recall how his father had to borrow the $1,000 which helped Owen to an education, world potency, historic fame...
...more "cash" and less "kind." 3) The four years covered by the Report do not include the present so-called first Standard Year, in which the German Reparations annuity rises to its final level of 2,500,000,000 marks ($595,000,000). Even Agent General Gilbert cannot know from experience how well the burden of the Standard Years will be borne a decade or a generation hence...
...bright places that will know them no more, friends of the 200 novices declared soberly that their tortured haste to do penance showed "the deep-founded desire for peace among the German people...