Word: knowingness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Knowing well that the U. S. State Department scrutinizes all foreign loans offered to the U. S. public by U. S. banks, and knowing that such scrutiny would scarcely ensure success to a loan for a country which is not recognized by the U. S., the Soviet carried out its...
"Knowing your business ability?"
For its final number, the outgoing board of the Lampoon has produced nothing startling: but that is as it should be. As soon as the Lampoon startles anybody, it is certain to find itself in trouble. A humorist should never startle his public. Whenever that happens everyone (often including the...
The editorial goes on to wish a left-handed success to the successors; but that is not the point. In their nostalgia, the retiring editors are unaware of the essential humour of their remarks. They have found the Jester to be a sorry creature; but they forget that a sorry...
This inducement to college newspaper work is evident in the secret pleasure a candidate experiences in hearing his stories discussed by his classmates, or in the thrill of knowing that he is the repository of important facts of which the ordinary student is as yet completely ignorant. Both give him...