Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They asked him if it were true that the Board's credit was being extended only in cases where loans were otherwise unavailable; they said Congress had intended something quite different. He replied: "I have read the bill about 20 times and I don't understand yet. If anyone of you understand, you are better men than...
...Called Honorable because he was the second son of Viscount Amberly, Philosopher Russell is famed as mathematician, radical, pacifist. One of "twelve men" who understood Einstein's Relativity Theory, he wrote The A B C of Relativity (1925). Last week he said he did not understand the "last five pages" of the Einstein "Coherent Field Theory," latest Einstein hypothesis, printed on six pages (TIME...
...Southern Pacific is neither a hospital nor a college. It is easy to understand why the gift was made. Though Mr. Harkness is a director of eight railroads, he has long had a penchant for the Southern Pacific. Of each and every year he spends a part inspecting the road. Many of the employes he knows by face and name. He once remarked that his three dominant interests were "the great West," "railroad companies," and "helping to better medical education." There could be no more logical focus for these three interests than the Southern Pacific hospital. The causes...
...reposed his elbow on his knee, shoved his cap over to an effectively hard-boiled angle, and went on: "I understand that there is some difference of opinion among civilians concerning the right and wrong of prohibition. Some of it got into camp, but those on the negative side are in the brig. It's a closed question to the military, so as long as you wear those uniforms, don't get opinionated...
...Many a New York inhabitant and visitor knew this bank because of its unique and long-standing advertisement headlined: "A Bank Statement That Any Man or Woman Can Understand." This began to appear years ago when other banks were afraid to advertise except in an unintelligible manner...