Word: knowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trouble you to let me know the answer to the above question, and if Governor Smith did not receive the largest popular vote, except for Mr. Hoover, will you please state who did and what the figures as to the votes were...
Cried Labor M.P. George Downie Blyth Crookston Hardie, ludicrously enough: "We all know that the Morgan's business seems to be chiefly to finance General Motors." Queried he shrewdly, "Was Grenfell's speech really made in order that General Motors might take a slap at Ford...
Major General Amos Alfred Fries, who as Chief of the Chemical War Service should know most of such matters, treated Dr. Jones' alarums as rustlings from a mares' nest. The service, said he, had not asked that news of cacodyl isocyanide be squelched, for it knows nothing...
Sleeping Passengers. Those who have flown as passengers to a definite destination know that, except for a few minutes after the takeoff, the trip becomes monotonous. William Bushnell Stout who makes all-metal planes for Ford Motor Co. and who is an executive of both Northwest Airways and Stout Air Services, remarked at Lehigh University last week that two out of five air passengers sleep enroute. In Germany last week one George Hermann slept so soundly while the Junkers plane on which he was a passenger bucked and twisted to a crash, that he knew nothing of the trouble until...
Curious friends have often been anxious to know whether the Vagabond goes into hibernation during the months that intervene before a second term opens or whether he remains about the college to haunt the scones of his former glory. To such unimaginative souls he can quote Shakespeare that "There are more things in Heaven and earth Horation, than are dreamt of in your philosophy" and the Vagabond would have little right to his claims of superior knowledge if he had not managed to discover enough of the more pleasant kind to keep him occupied during the leisure period...