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Word: understandably (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could use sea water or navigate through it, they would have to learn some things that would be perfectly obvious to anyone who had lived by the sea." Last week the National Science Foundation announced grants of $500,000 to M.I.T. and $300,000 to Harvard to help humans understand the plasma ocean around them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fourth State of Matter | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

...impending visit of Khrushchev to the U.S. places those who have been fighting Communism as an enemy of Americanism in a delicate position. It is obvious that Khrushchev must personally see America to understand why it would be inadvisable for him to precipitate Russia into a war. On the other hand, his invitation to visit America as an official guest of our Government has tremendous propaganda value...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 31, 1959 | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

...wire pullers" (TIME, April 20), London's Economist declared: "Dr. Adenauer has chosen to make a political issue of the gnat bites of individual British critics, and to make use of them in opposing British policies." Along with the Economist, most Britons professed to find it hard to understand why the French and Germans should get so worked up over attacks from papers notorious for their lack of influence on British policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Shrillness in Fleet Street | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

Gert's poems are bunk, Ep's statues are punk, And no one can understand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Volcanic Knight | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

...throb of the blues. There were times, says Ruff, "when the renditions came close to eloquence." Where the Russians fall short is on improvisation. After one demonstration at which Ruff and Mitchell improvised around a current Russian song, a young man asked for the score. "They couldn't understand." says Mitchell, "that except for the basic chords, it was all on the spur of the moment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Those Cool Reds | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

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