Word: understand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most U. S. families carry some sort of insurance, and most of them have radios. Their insurance policies are generally Greek to them. But what comes over the radio is easy to understand. Recently, over WMCA and several other Manhattan and New England stations, the radio has been bringing to many homes in the East disturbing theories about insurance policies. Sample script...
...rank in the former are three articles of his which have been printed in the "Rassegna Monetaria", the Italian economic journal. His explanation of his personal mixture of poet and economist is that "an opic is a poem con- taining history, and if a man thinks he can understand history without economics he is a bloody idiot...
...shadows lengthened beneath the stately Plympton Street elms and the evening breeze whispered through the leaves, dignified Harvard men, strolling along the green paths of the ancient Yard, murmured to one another, "Ah, yes, 23 to 2, I understand...
Eventually paroled, Robert entered a teachers' college at Tempe, Ariz. His classmates found him hard to understand, envied his ability to wangle high marks with hardly any study. His teacher of public speaking was puzzled when Robert handed in an outline for a speech entitled "Murder," describing a "perfect crime." Recently Robert's acquaintances noticed that he was acting even more queerly than usual. He moved out of his dormitory, took a room in a hotel...
...Francisco, where his father had become embroiled in politics, in 1875. After his father's death, his schoolteacher mother moved the family back to New England. Frost went to high school in Lawrence, Mass. At school, a passage in Virgil's Georgics suddenly made him understand what it was to be a poet. He began to write; but meanwhile, after Dartmouth proved too academic for him, he set out to make his living in a Lawrence mill...