Word: knowing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...able to build a fire in that country is to be able to live. All Alaskans know that. Sourdough Robertson knew it. The bulging sun, which had popped up over the south horizon for a few hours, slid down again. Night came on. In the distance trotted black shadows-wolves. The oldtimer decided to camp beside a little stream. Something went wrong. He couldn't light a fire. Perhaps his old hands numbed too quickly when he jerked them out of the mittens to strike matches; stayed numb no matter how he pounded them together. Perhaps his little sticks...
...Ramspeck had done last week was to win a final victory for the civil service over the spoils system. It came about because a slender, well-dressed Congressman from Decatur, Ga., Robert Ramspeck, 50 years old, looking 35, is a mild, gentle, quiet man who doesn't know when he is licked...
...Martians (if there are any) trained their telescopes (if they have any) on the Earth this year, they gazed on scenes of almost unbelievable chaos: Europe overrun by war, with famine and pestilence riding behind; Asia, which always knows famine and pestilence, also locked in war; the rest of the world feverishly preparing for a war of continents. Yet the men of Mars, if they have been watching this world long enough, know that it has always been thus on Earth, that inevitably out of disorder comes order, and out of chaos, progress...
...know. Your family's place is near the pit where I used to work...
...type of enrollees that the principal difference occurs. The government organizations consist almost exclusively of young people who would otherwise be entirely on the rocks; the private camps have sought to promote "trans-class associations," through which college youth and working-class youth can come to know each other and to have a more real friendship, a deeper awareness of mutual needs and interests. The private camps, too, have tended to be more democratically organized and led, rather than arranged along military lines...