Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Salzburg Seminar, a unique organization designed to help Europeans understand the United States, completed its fourth, and most successful session this summer, according to William F. Gleason '50, one of the administrators of the program...
...almost a saint; and the theological dispassion to talk, without raising his voice, about the most controversial Christian of modern times. Biographer Bainton has plenty of dispassion, and also a handsome way of writing. His Luther biography is easily the most readable in English; if it fails to understand all the Martin Luthers and to reconcile them in one man, that was more than Luther could do, either...
...York Sun, Cahan in 1902 became editor of the then struggling Forward, which he had helped found five years before. Cahan found a paper with a picayunish circulation of 6,000, full of tedious, dust-dry Socialist polemics, written in jabberwocky that few garment workers could understand...
Cahan substituted lively feature stories. To make his writers stop using long words, Ab would call in the elevator operator to see if he could understand their stories. He gave his readers such homely advice as urging mothers to see that their children carried handkerchiefs. When his sponsors protested such trivialities, Ab asked: "Since when is Socialism opposed to clean noses...
...that its deliveries to Northwest had been delayed. It said this was caused by 1) new regulations which the Civil Aeronautics Authority ordered for all passenger planes, and 2) a strike which closed Boeing's plant for 20 weeks last year. Rejoined Boeing: "We find it difficult to understand why Northwest ... is taking this . . . action...