Word: understand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cannot be learned from books. What about the countless fiery speeches of Banda and his followers in which they promised every Congress member a car, refrigerator, big house, etc., when the whites are kicked out of Nyasaland? Are these the words of responsible leaders? Is it so difficult to understand that Britain can safely allow this sort of nonsense to be spouted daily at Hyde Park Corner, but not in Blantyre to an unsophisticated audience of Africans...
Since the end of World War I, the principal aim of U.S. foreign policy, says Ways, has been to ensure the nation's survival. This limiting policy kept Franklin Roosevelt from moving ships and planes on Pearl Harbor eve because he thought the people would not understand warlike actions until "the aggressor" had struck the first blow. It led the U.S. to fight World War II under "the shamefully aimless policy banner of unconditional surrender,'' without any postwar aims. Today, as in Hitler's day. the U.S. is up against an enemy with a purpose, plan...
Followers of this agnostic creed cannot understand the Church and why it would hesitate to send Catholics to such schools as Harvard. They feel this is dishonesty, intellectual cowardice, a policy founded on fear and lacking all respectability. The Church, for its part, is primarily interested in men's salvation; it exists as a means towards salvation, and it believes close contact with the Church almost essential for every man who wants to be saved. The individual makes his own choice concerning Harvard, but he chooses with knowledge of his spiritual obligations as a member of the Church--one obligation...
...plasma studies at Harvard and M.I.T. will be largely theoretical, but highly practical hardware is likely to grow out of them. The development of fusion power depends on better understanding of high-temperature plasmas. A plasma rocket engine expelling charged particles instead of hot gases may be the solution to the problem of long-range flight. During interplanetary voyages, a spaceship will pass through lashing streams of plasmas shot out of the sun, and its designers had better understand them well in advance. If a spaceship tries to land on a planet, it will meet another plasma problem. A group...
...high schools will teach Russian; New York City and its suburbs alone has more high school Russian courses than the entire nation had two years ago. All San Francisco high schools are switching language study from the formal grammar approach to the U.S. Army's faster speak-and-understand system. More and more schools have "language laboratories." electronic playback units that let students compare their pronunciation with native voices. Next step: conducting science, history or English literature classes in a foreign language. ¶ Elementary schools are changing radically from the "egg crate" method of locking all students...