Word: fathoming
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...abandoned its silver purchases, or merely postponed them. Secretary Morgenthau swore the U. S. was sticking to its silver policy but what that was to be hereafter was anybody's guess. Silver traders the world over swore and bit their nails. U. S. financiers admitted they could not fathom it. In Reno Senator Pittman sat down and dictated a long signed statement for the Press. Excerpts: "Certain governments and certain banking institutions and speculators in ... foreign countries desire to know what our government is going to do. It's none of their business. They never tell us what...
This young couple's problem of incompatibility has been cleverly handled by Eager, who has brought to the stage a group of gay, interesting characters. They are as much at a loss to understand Ann's serious-minded husband, as poor David is to fathom them...
...action of sorcerers, or of enemies practicing everyday magic, or of invisible influences about whose nature they speculate little but which they feel around them everywhere and which they try to circumvent by any means available. Thus the "supernatural" is simply that which they cannot see or fathom, and it interferes with and confuses the natural order of things constantly...
...stopped for half an hour at his club on his way home from work, fussed regularly over wishy-washy editorials in morning papers, considered his wife's family damnably inconsiderate, registered automatic, unfailing, profane disapproval of whatever happened in Washington. It never occurred to him to try to fathom points of view other than his own, or respect practices and opinions which he thought unreasonable. When he decided his son should learn music, he bought him a violin and hired a teacher, would not listen when his wife, the teacher, neighbors and Clarence complained that the youngster produced only...
...stopped for half an hour at his club on his way home from work, fussed regularly over wishy-washy editorials in morning papers, considered his wife's family damnably inconsiderate, registered automatic, unfailing, profane disapproval of whatever happened in Washington. It never occurred to him to try to fathom points of view other than his own, or respect practices and opinions which he thought unreasonable. When he decided his son should learn music, he bought him a violin and hired a teacher, would not listen when his wife, the teacher, neighbors and Clarence complained that the youngster produced only...