Word: knowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mother, father and three sisters. It then goes next door to the minister's, where he, his wife and daughters read it. It is then sent to Huntington, W. Va., where it is read by a man and his wife-and from there, well, I do not know where it goes, but the chances are that TIME'S journeys do not even then end. Summing it up: A safe estimate is that at least 50 people read the magazine in the public reading room, after which an even dozen read it in rotation...
...been everywhere. He seems to know nearly everyone worth while in the capitals of the world. He is no mere pretender. Pin him down and you find he is not a cheap drawing-room boaster. He knows the people he calls acquaintances or friends. He proves...
...Messieurs, between a pear and some cheese, we have just laid the little cornerstone of a European federation; discreetly, between a pear and some cheese?which doesn't, you know, diminish at all the importance of the event...
...judgment; it enhances courage by dispelling baseless fears. If you will define and analyze "gumption," you will find that knowledge and training play their part in it. Indeed, the honest search for knowledge is a cardinal virtue and a builder of character. One of the most constructive minds I know in business calls it the First Commandment...
...little an intrest or shear in your oil wells as $4 to start with and then take what it makes for me and add to the $4 until it amounts to a fifty dollar share for me. . . . Write me once in a while about it so I would know when I would start drawing money off it. Please explain all about the oil well. ... I hope the good Lord will bless you all in every...