Word: knowes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Miss Pryor's letter; I did not like the nun's. The good Sister was too hasty. I'd say the poor little soul is overworked, and has to read while she's flying around doing a dozen other things, none of them easy. I know nuns and their trying career; had charge of nuns for years. You were perfectly in the right. Sometimes Catholics are too ready to take offence where not the slightest offence is intended. Perhaps Catholics get that way from having stood for more than their share of unjust abuse. I know...
Americans know that Thomas Alva Edison invented the "Kinetoscope"; and Frenchmen know that Louis Lumière invented the "Cinematograph." Experts still wrangle over which of these inventions was the more basic; but grizzled Louis Lumière has long since ceased to care. Interviewed last week in Paris he barely condescended to observe: "My. brother Auguste and I looked upon our invention as a novelty, capable of offering distraction for a few moments only. . . . The Americans have taken a toy and made it into a trade. . . . Primarily I am a chemist. I have little or no time...
...soon went back to his bowl of soup. He did not realize what he had done until jovial Freidrich Ebert, later first President of the Republic, rushed in flushed with indignation and exclaimed: "What have you done? I hear you have proclaimed a Republic! Don't you know you had no right to do that...
Appropriately the official attention-caller was revealed as Rudolph Spreckels. As all Californians know, the fame of the sugar family Spreckels rests on sugar pioneering. And the bright, particular fame of Rudolph Spreckels emerged from the succor he gave an ailing sugar business exactly 30 years...
Spreckels. All Californians know the history of the Sugar Family Spreckels. Father Claus, immigrant grocery boy, had left Germany in 1848 to avoid the revolutionary fighting. By 1856, Father Claus had imported a German bride and settled in San Francisco. From this time on, he lived in a state of perpetual warfare...