Word: knowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have a trial subscription to TIME, I am interested to know how accurate your account is, particularly as I was surprised to read that Mr. Coolidge did not rise from his seat on such an important occasion...
...present Professor Vanderblue is Director of Economic Research and also professor in the Business School. His resignation does not take effect until next September. Evidently Professor Vanderblue has made no future plans, for when asked what he intended to do next year he merely said, "How do I know...
...that the Hanover undergraduates know who is most likely to succeed in life, what man's tailor to patronize, and whose brow in truth is the highest they can hurry back to the normalcy their self-imposed psychoanalysis interrupted. For this introspection should prove the sole lapse in the life of an otherwise healthy New Hampshire extravert. Remembering to respect the local chief of police, to elect Biblical History next semester, and to shun the study of physics like poison, Dartmouth men can get back to their favorite topic, women, women, women. When it is recalled...
...Years later, when a landlubber called Joan a water rat the old sailor rushed to her defense: "She's a girl flower, she is, with the tropic heavens fer a hothouse, and the scoldin' of the storm fer her when she's bad. An' she knows all that we sailormen know-all the good-'cause no one of us ever let her hear nothin' else." The Significance. Richer tales have been written of South Sea wonders, more winning records have been made of childhood and adolescence; but Cradle of the Deep combines both...
...know I never bother to memorize the words to my songs very carefully, and even if I did, I wouldn't remember them. I just put in 'Get hot!' or 'Come on, brother, smoulder!', wherever I forget the words, and it goes over just as well...