Word: knowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rail-road viaduct in Bartonville, Ill., where he was mentally adding the figures on passing box cars for practice. Calculator Strong told builders the number of bricks needed for walls, computed cube roots in his head, invoiced store stocks from memory. Always he said: "I don't know how I do it." A year ago he had a red granite stone set up in a cemetery inscribed: ''William L. Strong, world's greatest mathematician. Wonderful...
...know the story! ... I want to denounce it as a miserable lie. I wish I could see the scoundrel who started it. . I wish people would mind their own affairs and leave mine alone. ... Of course I do not pay the regular rates for a great big hotel apartment. What I do pay is nobody's damned business! I can afford to pay what they charge...
...been congratulated on my acquittal by thousands of people. Why, only a few nights ago, Harry Curtis, son of the Vice President of the U. S., came to my club and congratulated me from the centre of the floor. He is of the type of people who know that I am an entertainer for good wholesome...
...America there are no facilities for being lazy, and laziness is fully as important as diligence, in its proper place. It's nice to sit in a cafe. It's comfortable. The go-getter stops panting. The world resumes its normal shape. You know, I like the way European cities take care of their people. The large parks, the wide boulevards, the sidewalk cafes! Say, it's nice to sit in a cafe and have something. If Prohibition hadn't interfered, California would be the greatest grape-growing region in the world, making better wines than...
...Death should come soon and suddenly to three men-George V. Edward of Wales, the Duke of York-England would have another Virgin Queen Elizabeth. Last week, romping in a yellow frock, the Princess Elizabeth passed her third birthday. She does not know that she is but three removes from the Throne; in fact she has only very recently discovered that she is a "P'incess." It is barely a fortnight ago that she knocked with chubby fist upon a door, and when her mother called "Who's there?" answered in an important little voice, "Lilybet...