Word: understandingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crowd of 45,000 people and personages had been treated to what Hitchcock again described as the "hardest" game he had ever participated in (TIME, Sept. 15). Even if you were unable to understand the strategy of a game that to the layman appears a game of imperfection, of constant trying and missing, two events of the afternoon afforded the sort of thrill that brings most people out to watch auto races...
...danger of neglecting one's work in order to laugh. They are perfectly plain middle class people and as such are charming neighbors. But they have the notion that as someone else has three cars they must have three, and if other folk ride horses and pretend to understand polo they must do the same. In England they would know their place. They would certainly learn not to wear jodpurs when they go to the grocer...
...Hard Work, Lady Optimism, Little Johnny Pay Roll and Miss Good Fortune are here to take your places. I understand that even ' now Miss Good Fortune has become engaged to Mr. Bigger Buyer...
Facts as such play a very small part in this course; it is much more a systematic method of thinking that the student must master; reasoning power, not memory, is necessary in order to understand and succeed in ec A. By this one should not understand that no work is required, that all one needs to do to get a good grade, is to go to quizzes once a month and exercise his reasoning power. Not at all; reasoning power and concentration are quite as necessary in studying the principles of economics as they are in answering questions on examinations...
...reported that the Gandhite leaders said to them in substance: "The Viceroy's words afford a further painful insight into government mentality. It is as plain as daylight that from the dizzy heights of Simla [Viceregal Summer Capital in the mountains] India's rulers are unable to understand and appreciate the difficulties of the starving millions living in the plains, whose incessant toil makes government from such a dizzy height at all possible...