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Word: knowes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...know why you should make a statement of that kind, but I do know that I will never permit it to go unchallenged. . . . I do not feel that I should charge you with making this statement for any political purpose, as it was made in a church devoted to the teachings of Christ, one of which was, 'Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Deadliest Foe | 8/20/1928 | See Source »

...permit' me to take that line in the meeting, but I assure you that I have not heretofore been 'embarrassed' on meeting you, and do not think that I will suffer thus when we meet face to face with this discussion, though I well know your great prowess in debate, and am also aware of my own limitations and defects. ... I venture to remind you that you are not yet President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Deadliest Foe | 8/20/1928 | See Source »

...Straton is the ablest orator, in my opinion, in the Baptist Church and knows more about the Bible in a minute than I will ever know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Deadliest Foe | 8/20/1928 | See Source »

...believe, without conceit, that I know more about political history than he will ever know. I do know that I would not be so profoundly interested in Gov. Smith's success if I had not known him intimately 25 years, and if I did not know that he is the cleanest, most loyal man in politics today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Deadliest Foe | 8/20/1928 | See Source »

...Governor Smith is the first man of national prominence in this country to come forward and say what we all know to be true, namely that enforcement is a failure. Mr. Hoover doesn't believe in prohibition any more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: At Charlottesville | 8/20/1928 | See Source »

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