Word: knowns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...skirmish good for scaring the citizenry and testing the latest motor and fuel adjustments. The real hot rodders meet on weekends at the hard-packed sandy stretches in the dry lake beds of El Mirage, 106 miles northeast of Los Angeles. There, under careful racing conditions, hot-rod clubs known as the "Dragons," the "Cranks" or the "Gents" skim over the sand at speeds of 100 to 180 m.p.h...
...India, plain people learned the practical meaning of devaluation when a well-known dollar product, Ovaltine, shot up from 3½rupees to 5 in the bazaars...
...Lord Lyons (1859-65), who took the hot blast of Northern resentment at British help to the South. ¶ James Bryce (1907-13), who was well known in the U.S., before he became Ambassador, for his great book The American Commonwealth. Bryce was widely respected; when he attended the Old Presbyterian Church in Washington he was always escorted to Abraham Lincoln's pew. ¶ Sir Cecil Spring Rice (1913-18), the World War I Ambassador, so supercautious that he dared make only one public speech in his five years in the U.S. ¶ Rufus Isaacs, Lord Reading...
...worked his way up to being Permanent Secretary of the combined Ministries of Supply and Aircraft Production (at ?3,500 a year). To explain the phenomenon, some of Franks's friends fumble with such fuzzy words as "elusive" and "intuitive" to describe his gifts, but one who has known him for years put it very simply last week: "Franks is essentially a very simple man on whose shoulders a big, beautiful piece of mental machinery has been placed...
...institute's collection: George Washington's famed store teeth. Of the three known sets, one is privately owned, one is on display at Mount Vernon, one is owned by the University of Maryland School of Dentistry...