Word: knowns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hicks, for one, refused to live in this neat and fanciful little fabrication. While the points of his disagreement are not yet fully known, this much is clear. He refused to crawl before the "bear that walks like a snake" simply because Party rules bade him do so. He refused to prostitute his intellect to Party discipline when every ounce of reason cried otherwise...
Hicks has always been a strong defender of Communist principles, his best known work being "I Like America". While in Boston he engaged in several public debates espousing Communist doctrines. He is now residing on a farm in Grafton, N. Y. and is engaged in literary work...
...instruction in reading springs from the Dean's Office's recognition of the fact that poor scholastic records can be causes by many factors besides lack of intelligence. The College has known for some time that difficulty in reading is a great handicap to the student...
...lighter fellows, and so serve as "tagged atoms" or chemical spies to show where the nitrogen goes. Carbon is a vital ingredient of all living substance, and by using heavy carbon atoms as tracers Dr. Urey expects physiologists to find out much more about carbon metabolism than is now known...
...Beard except as the be-buckskinned, gimlet-eyed, weather-resistant Grand Old Man of the Boy Scouts. Yet his autobiography gives only eleven pages to his career as founder and National Commissioner of the Boy Scouts. Apparently "Uncle" Dan thinks his 30 years of Scouting is altogether too well known-it "seems to have wiped my past history off the slate," he complains. His picturesque record of a Vanishing American, written with a sort of grizzled spryness, covers his first 60 years, before he joined the Boy Scouts...