Word: understand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flew some 3,000 miles to Britain, leaving twelve wives behind in his Accra palace. He landed at London Airport wearing red and green robes, a red hat spangled with jewels, and sandals whose soles were lined with silver. The Osu explained what had brought him to Britain: "I understand I can obtain free health treatment here. I think I will get a pair of spectacles...
...State Department record of his conversations: "Mr. Wallace again stressed the point that there should be no situation in China which might lead to conflict with the U.S.S.R. ... Mr. Wallace referred to the patriotic attitude of the Communists in the United States and said that he could not understand the attitude of the Chinese Communists...
...There is a new kind of literature abroad in the land, whose only obvious fault is that no one can understand it. Last year there appeared a gigantic novel entitled Ulysses by James Joyce. To the uninitiated it appeared that Mr. Joyce had taken some half million assorted words-many such as are not ordinarily heard in reputable circles-shaken them up in a colossal hat, laid them end to end. To those in on the secret the result represented the greatest achievement in modern letters-a new idea in novels...
...better with other stutterers, for then they have no sense of inferiority. Because a stutterer who has almost conquered the handicap serves as an encouragement, much speech practice is done in groups. About a third of the hospital's staff are former patients: they, better than anyone else, understand the problem...
...shares his course with three other professors, each with his own ideas on teaching science to the layman. Conant's device is to use a sort of case method. If pupils can understand how science solved specific problems in the past, he thinks, they will soon understand the scientific method in general...