Word: known
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...value of social accomplishments is admitted for such specialized professions as the diplomatic service and investment banking, the inordinate amount of time spent in stereotyped rehearsals of these matters is only inefficiently reflected in an increased social effectiveness. If one seriously seeks to acquire a facility in the usages known as good from, there are quicker and more sure methods than an iterative attendance at eight o'clock dinners and prolonged sessions given over life dance, whose monotonous four-four rhythm, often known as "common time", is only seldom relieved by the equally hackneyed three-four of the waltz...
Certainly no President of the United States has ever known-as does the Emperor of Japan - the name of his 123rd paternal ancestor...
...interested in the fifth correction of Herbert Janvrin Browne in LETTERS of Oct. 29. "Incidentally," Mr. Browne writes, "less is known about the slumber habits of horses than of any other domestic animal." That may be, but I have had experience which proves to me, at least, that horses do sleep, and with a vengeance...
Evidently Mr. Landers is a bit behind "TIME" as you will see by examining the enclosed clipping descriptive of just such a purse made out of a sow's ear by the well known chemical engineers, Arthur D. Little, Inc., of Cambridge, Mass...
...Goldsborough, Rhode Island's Herbert, New Jersey's Kean, Connecticut's Walcott and Glenn of Illinois. Perhaps West Virginia's Hatfield will show a streak of independence. Hatfield used to be a fighting name in the Border States and Henry D. Hatfield has known the authority of a Governorship...