Word: understandingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...understand," cried the Premier and provoked the Chamber to guffaws, "that the Belgian Cabinet refused to pay and then resigned...
...that matter, precisely what he meant by his statements of Technocracy's solution tor technological unemployment This was partly because Technocrat Scott threw about himself an air of scientific impersonality and profundity. Technocracy was an idea; he was its intelligence; his person and personality did not matter; listen and understand, if you can, but do not interrupt or pry into Howard Scott...
...Young told Counsel Jacobson that no questions were asked because "knowing Mr. Insull as you do . . . and bearing in mind that he had offered a note with a collateral margin of 40% which he offered to maintain and in addition endorsed the note personally, you will understand that I, as chairman of the General Electric, would not have asked Mr. Insull what he was going to do with the money." "Didn't you know by February 1932, that Samuel Insull was financially irresponsible?" asked Counsel Jacobson...
...York Hospital-Cornell Medical Centre, one night last week a priest hastily christened a four-day-old baby. Mary Ellen Hughes. The father, one John Hughes, and the aunt, Miss Margaret Sullivan, had understood the baby was in good health. But suddenly, said Miss Sullivan later, ". . . They made us understand she had little chance of recovery. They also said she looked so delicate we had better not pick her up. [Next morning] the hospital called up and said the baby had died." Another newborn babe died that morning, a third the day after. The parents did not find...
...what do those boys think I am a lost and found department. Why, the work I have to do to keep these rooms in order! My lands, you'd think a cyclone had hit it every morning. Pajama tops here, and the bottoms in the study, I can't understand how they get dressed. Well, I know they always are in a hurry to get to a class, but you'd think they would have time at least to put on two shoes of the same type. I've often wondered if it's the things they drink. My, what...