Word: knowes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Upon the claims of cigaret makers that smokers know their favorite brands by taste, research from Reed Institute at Portland, Oregon, last week, cast doubt. P. Lorillard Tobacco Co. (Old Gold) in particular has been illustrating its extensive advertisements with photographs of famed persons choosing Old Golds while blindfolded from among other brands. Reed Institute laboratory tests by one Louis Goodman, graduate student, however, show that only once in nine times on the average does one recognize his favorite cigaret whether he is blindfolded...
...place there now is published The Rural Digest, a 32-pager, conceived, conscribed, composed and cut after the fashion of TIME, the Newsmagazine. The object: to boil down to terse paragraphs of restatement or selective quotation every 30 days, all the agricultural news a high-grade farmer ought to know...
...didn't know where I was. I didn't know my own name. When I looked out of the window at the landscape it looked dark and unfamiliar. Nobody will ever know how I struggled with myself to remember things. It took me 48 hours before I could win back enough reason to know I was Gene...
...here is the strangest thing. Do you know what finally cleared up my head? Those seven socks to the chin Dempsey hit me in the seventh round in Chicago. From that time on I never had that tight feeling in the head or that haziness before the eyes...
...words of a man from St. Louis, Mo. He sounded exactly like this: "Once there was a young rat who couldn't make up his mind. Whenever another rat asked him if he would like to go out with him, he would answer, 'I don't know...