Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...same time, probably studying during the evening, or taking extension courses under the direction perhaps of men who have themselves trod the same path. Once he learns and understands the principles, he is then in a position to do a little selling, and once he reaches the stage where he can call on banks, bankers, and other investors, he will be able not only to understand their requirements and give them the service that they need and the information about securities which his House can offer, but he is also able year by year to increase his volume of business...
...home late one afternoon last week both her sons were missing, but a note identical with the last written lines of The Marble Coffin, was conspicuously present. Hastily summoned police discovered the author and his brother camping in a nearby field. Censured, Author Connolly protested: "You don't understand. I had to do it for the book...
Trois Jeunes Filles Nues. French musical comedy is seldom written home about. Tourists are either ashamed about it, or don't understand it, or spend their time in the Louvre. One hardly would have expected to see a French revue imported to Broadway and presented in its native tongue with any degree of success. However, it has now been done and the result is far from discouraging. A company managed by J.A. Gauvin began a New York engagement last week with a piece entitled Trois Jeunes Filles Nues, which, for the sake of the censor, was translated as "Three...
...goes at the task of tearing them away from the medical profession as if he expected to be accused of sacrilege. But it is the fashion nowadays to reduce science into terms intelligible to the layman, and his tone of frankness will be appreciated by those who want to understand the causes and reasons for their ailments...
...that this is in itself reprehensible. It has been remarked that sex "is something most of us possess, but in which most of us do not see the guiding star of our lives." In short, while it is not difficult to understand why so much perfectly good paper is taken up with its exposition, it is hard to justify the fact on any artistic or intellectual grounds. And what applies to the bulk of the "novels" of this character applies in particular to "Plundered Host." In the words of the late Ambrose Bierce, "The covers of this book...