Word: knowes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...current issue of TIME, Feb. 11, you refer to the return to England of Col. T. E. Lawrence, and you refer to that gentleman himself as "Great Britain's most celebrated spy." I should like to know what excuse you have for calling him "spy," or what proof have you that...
Romanticist: I don't know about that, and anyhow that isn't the way the girl figures...Besides, there's something else, the most important thing, in fact... We're not living in the age of chivalry, but when I go out, part of the fun is in knowing that I'm doing the escorting. Don't deny it, you feel that way yourself...
Asked if he believed in prohibition, the Robot answered "I don't know, when does it start?" Among other items of information accumulated in this human machine are the times of arrival and departure of all Boston-New York trains. The inventor even claims the ability to evoke after slight training a correct Harvard pose and accent, if desired...
...general observations upon the success of the House plan and its long endurance. It is just as possible that many who favor the plan are influenced by lack of information as those who oppose it. He is certainly true when he says that the great majority of undergraduates know nothing about the plan. The CRIMSON referendum of two years ago, almost forgotten in the renewal of the question this year, definitely proves that even undergraduate ignorance and indifference refused to sanction the proposed plan and voted against its adoption. There is no reason to believe that there has been...
...example of his advice is: treat intuitions tenderly. "The moment we feel their presence, it is as if we saw the ripple over Bethesda and we ought to know that our chance is near. Silence, both exterior and interior, should prevail; we ought to be attentive but not eager or, above all, curious. The beautiful visitor is like a butterfly, no longer the same when caught...