Word: understand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...campaign of the CRIMSON with respect to the tutoring schools has, without doubt, the support of the great majority of the alumni who understand the extent to which the schools have grafted themselves onto the educational system of the college. In courage alone this campaign must be almost unique. When has any other newspaper thrown out a large part of the advertising and attacked the ex-advertisers...
...want you to understand there's no nudity in our show; we're not running anything like that Rand woman's ranch. We've got 156 beautiful Aquagals here, and they all wear something," Eleanor ("Aquabelle") Holm said in an interview on the opening day of the World's Fair...
...TIME taken in by the Garner build-up when it reported (March 20, p. 13) that "he has recently built with his own money 25 houses for about $2,000 each in Uvalde, the like of which cost FHA one-third more"? I understand that FHA does not build houses, merely insures mortgages on them. ... All of which is no reflection on the Sage of Uvalde...
About the time I was beginning to walk and was fortunate that I couldn't understand it, preachers quoted the Bible and urged young men to kiss a pretty girl, join the army, and kill the wicked Germans. Today we wonder who really started the War, and know very well what a great mess...
History is at best violent, doubly so in such periods. Bombers over Shanghai and Guernica, refugees from Barcelona and Prague, tell stories whose raw horror blurs the minds of those who try to understand the causes of war. When philosophers, economists, historians try to penetrate the wild surface of events, to see the forces that have created them, their dry generalizations and statistics seem cold beside the living reality of the headlines. In different terms they state the causes of international conflict-as rivalry between the Haves and the Havenots, between the countries struggling to keep what they have...