Word: understand
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Last week a battle of words was on. Snapped Wright: "If I did supply detailed specifications on this new type of modern architecture I would have to supply engineers and architects for your department to understand them...
...letter to the editor of the Lancet last fortnight, a Glasgow doctor named Stanley Alstead offered an ingenious suggestion for deodorizing underground raid shelters. "I understand," wrote he, "that the stench in a London tube after it has been used for a night is beyond belief. . . . Old-fashioned charcoal [ might ] help in this connexion. Its power in abolishing smells is very considerable and has largely been lost sight of. . . . [ I heard of ]; a pharmacologist who actually put a dead cat into a charcoal box and kept it in his drawing room . . . without its having caused any smell. . . . Perhaps his guests...
What with all the swell Cole Porter and Irving Berlin tunes lying around, I can't understand why arrangers don't use them more to create something that will have a lasting musical value, not only for the fine melody that's already there, but for the good jazz that should be. I guess the best answer to this lies in what Glenn Miller told me a couple of years...
...this point the argument, like most discussion on wages and prices, became entangled in two-way semantic trouble. One difficulty: many labor men do not understand the difference between money wages and real wages, will jump at a small money-wage increase even though they would enjoy greater buying power if wages and prices would not race one another up. The other difficulty: many businessmen do not understand the difference between rising wages and rising labor costs, don't know that U. S. industry, by increasing the productivity of labor, has absorbed an average hourly wage-rate increase...
...News and how to Understand it (Simon & Schuster; $2) is subheaded In spite of the newspapers, In spite of the magazines, In spite of the radio. A practitioner in two of these fields (he is news commentator for WQXR), Howe is critical of all three. Refreshingly fair and accurate (especially in comparison with muckraking books like George Seldes' Lords of the Press), Howe's book is an amusing, gossipy chat about the men and corporations that bring the news to America: their biases, their qualities, their wives. His opinions...