Word: knowes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Neither J. P. Morgan & Company, nor, so far as they know, any of the companies in which they have any interest, direct or indirect, have taken any position for or against public or private ownership of the St. Lawrence River water power or the matter of its development...
...Well, you should know," answered the skipper of the Shawnee. The boat turned on her searchlight and signalled the Coast Guard cutter Gresham to approach. The Shawnee plowed on, pumping out the water that the waves poured in through the shell holes. For a whole day Coast Guard vessels dogged her course...
...know, I offered jobs to Sir Henry Thornton, President of the Canadian National Railways, and to E. W. Beatty, President of the Canadian Pacific Railway, to come over here to reorganize our railways for us, but of course I made it plain that it was only a joke...
...parents and his schoolmasters. In the discreet fastness of the faculty room, his masters will tell you that he is a complete moron. His mother, on the other hand, will assure you that he is really quite brilliant, only he is so shy and sensitive that his masters never know it, for he becomes tongue-tied in class and paralyzed in examinations. Often enough, both are wrong. If the boy can be found some afternoon (when he should be studying) engaged in conversation with a neighborhood farmer, or chauffeur or shopkeeper, it may be observed that he is neither stupid...
...people are responsible for the funds used in the realization of the House Plan may be thought in a sense to remove all technical necessity for the detailed promulgation of the plans for the individual units. But after all, Harvard men both present and prespective have a desire to know how the Harvard of the future is going to look and to be allowed a chance to comment upon it before all possibility of revision is closed. While satisfaction for this desire may not, in a legal sense, be demanded as right, a larger view of the situation places their...