Word: knowes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...know your editorial staff is very busy, but has your attention been called to the July-September 1929 number of the American Journal of Physical Anthropology? Here, in a paper of 77 pages, is set forth the physical measurements of 100 or more young ladies of Smith College. I don't suppose that so heavy a journal finds its way to your editorial table. I don't feel competent to write a paragraph for TIME, but if you will permit me I shall be very glad indeed to mail you the journal, and one of your editors might...
...TIME, Oct. 7, in mentioning the former Prime Minister of Austria, Monsignore Seipel, you had to use the words "crafty priest." As I know the gentleman personally, I cannot for the life of me understand on what you based your right to this insinuation. Perhaps it is due to the loose and superficial manner of many journalists when they approach anything pertaining to the old Church, utterly disregarding the ordinary obligations of man to man; it should be discarded...
...more. And some time after the last meeting we, the members of the Botanic Garden Visiting Committee, received a statement of the members of the "Visiting Committee to the Department of Botany", with our names listed there as members! It was done without consulting us, so far as I know; the first knowledge I had of it was when I was notified that I was on the Visiting Committee to the Department of Botany. I returned the leaflet to the University with 'Botanic Garden' inserted in parentheses...
...dirt. Few who read the lead story in this issue of the CRIMSON will emerge from the maze of charge and counter-charge with more than an inkling as to what it's all about. In the first place only the most elect of the agricultural cognoscenti know where the Botanic Garden is and few but concentrators in horticulture can tell within a time limit of five minutes the difference between the Botanic Garden and the Gray Herbarium. But an understanding of these points is but elementary to an understanding of the present controversy...
...Most people know that Pulaski was a good soldier and an able general," said Count Pulaski, "but few know that he was one of the first men in the world to conceive of the idea of republicanism...