Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alethea could never understand the violence of Nicholas's feeling until one day his mother arrived from Australia. She was a hideous dwarf. Nicholas hated her, hated the thought that he had dwarf's blood in his veins, was morbidly afraid he himself had a dwarf's soul in a man's body. After a terrible scene Alethea took the little boy and ran away to her aunt in Germany. Though eventually she went back to her husband, for years she did not dare have her son in the same house with him. The boy grew up with a talent...
...credit for 18 months toward his retirement. World travelers were not surprised to find on the list such notoriously uncomfortable communities as Aden, Arabia; Canton, China; Baghdad, Iraq; Dakar, Senegal; Guayaquil, Ecuador; Leopoldville, Belgian Congo; Monrovia, Liberia and a host of Central American cities. What they found hard to understand, though, was the stamp of unhealthiness the Government had placed on such metropolitan centres as Hongkong, Nanking and Shanghai, on Havana and Saigon, on Bombay and Madras...
...right. ... I doubt if any man has ever been subjected to the malice organized to the nth degree which he has, but he has never raised his voice in complaint. . . . There was a time in my life when I was a Progressive but I can't understand what there is progressive about running around in circles and singing hymns of hate." Quoting Kipling's "If" at length Secretary Hyde concluded: "That's Herbert Hoover, your president and mine...
...Fowler and I love and understand each other, but we are not lovers. Do you think I could have been able to leave him if we were lovers? . . . I owe a great deal to Fowler. He is the man who taught me to fight, who sent me first to Zurich [to seek, like his mother, the help of psychoanalysts], when my life was smashed like broken crockery...
...secure the expected benefits of survey courses, critics say, one should begin with a firm foundation. After two or three years of history and of economics, the student is equipped sufficiently for real survey courses. He can then understand the place and purpose in society of his own chosen field. Oregon Emerald...