Word: knowns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trying to mind his own business. When one of his students decided upon the "hard and lonely road" of a non-registrant, we indeed "hustled to his aid," but with no idea that giving moral support and comfort to him constituted a violation of the law. Had we known that it might be so interpreted, we would doubtless have done the same thing anyway ... But the point is that there was no deliberate violation for the sake of martyrdom or anything else...
Looking at Bill Boyle, Truman declared: "I am as happy as I can be, of course, that my lifetime friend-I have known him ever since he was a kid; I knew his mother before him and she was one of the best Democrats that Missouri ever produced-is the national chairman of the Democratic Party." Bill Boyle beamed...
...Since 1945 known officially as the Association of Georgia Klans...
...compound became known in every country, selling in China as "Smooth Sea's Pregnancy Womb Birth-Giving Magical 100 Per Cent Effective Water." Perhaps its crowning triumph came in 1944, when an Army chaplain took some snapshots of South Pacific natives just liberated from the Japanese. One picture showed a native woman in front of a thatched jungle hut, surrounded by her possessions-meager indeed, but among them one bottle of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, the grandmotherly face on the label mild and benign as ever...
...land; and do you not find a strange analogy to something in yourself? For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life. God keep thee! Push not off from that isle, thou canst never return...