Word: understand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many pictures are being shown in which horses are thrown violently to the ground; animals are made to fight furious battles, which they would never do in the wilds, and other cruel acts are depicted that it is time the motion picture industry was made to understand that such acts are contrary to public opinion...
...least seven years to make a doctor-two years of premedical courses (many medical schools demand four), four years in a medical school, one to three years of interning. Thus most physicians do not open offices until they are almost 30, and many of them know little but medicine, understand nothing of the relation of their science to society, find no relaxation in art, music and literature...
...lifelong bachelor, Gibbs was a quiet, modest man. At Yale, where he did his major work, most of the students not only did not know he was a great man ; they did not even know he existed. His colleagues admired him but found his recondite researches hard to understand. Like Albert Einstein, Josiah Willard Gibbs was not an experimenter but a thinker...
...conditions for equilibrium in mixed substances, Gibbs arrived at certain abstruse but beautifully logical rules of energy exchange. His work thus held the key to the efficient handling of mixed substances in industry. Gibbs had no interest in technology, and technologists took quite a while to uncover, understand and apply his work to their own problems. Now that this has been done, however, the Gibbs rules have enormously facilitated and cheapened a great variety of industrial processes-for example, in metallurgy, refrigeration, fuel and power engineering; in the manufacture of synthetic chemicals, ceramics, glass, fertilizers...
...each other. Newspapers hinted at a divorce; Tom called the rumors "lying statements by my enemies." But last week Rena let the cat out of the bag. Said she: "Tom has talked to me about a divorce. He can't divorce me now. ... I can't understand. . . . What is there left for me? . . . We're old. I want to spend the remaining years with Tom Mooney ... the old Tom Mooney...