Word: interpret
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cartright did not return to Carnegie Tech. By the process of painfully rehabilitating himself to a silent world he could never again see, he traveled through Europe and the Orient. Today he appears before the microphones of radio stations KFAB and KOIL, Omaha, Neb., twice daily to interpret international affairs, though he cannot see to read or hear his voice. He keeps abreast of the news by reading with one finger the lips of his secretary. On the air he talks from Braille notes, speaks clearly and without hesitation, and stops when his fifteen minutes are up by feeling...
...proposals made at Harvard's conference of scholars was for a Court of Wisdom, which would interpret universal truth for mankind in its turbulent hour. The time has come, the scholars said, for the learned of the world to pool their knowledge and preserve the eternal verities. Such a proposal is stimulating, particularly now, when everyone is sifting every eternal verity to see whether it is a Republican eternal verity or a Democratic eternal verity. We would like to see such a court established, but we are familiar enough with the temper of mankind not to place too much confidence...
...grievously in its issue of July 13, or that of Aug. 31. The former places Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase in Cleveland until Oct. 4; while your last issue transports the picture to Hollywood. I am prone to believe that it remains in Cleveland, having attempted to interpret it while attending the 20th Anniversary Exhibition there last week...
...refused to concede that Jimmy Byrnes's great victory, like Pat Harrison's, was a thumping endorsement for the New Deal was South Carolina's senior Senator Ellison D. Smith, no New Dealer. Sulked he: "There are so many elements involved that it is hard to interpret just what that expression means. The main thing in the whole business was South Carolina's loyalty even to the name of 'Democracy...
...Managing Editor would be Dr. Franz Hollering, onetime editor of the Berlin B-Z am Mittag. Editorial headquarters were to be in a remodeled five-story Manhattan brownstone. Predicted Publisher Bourjaily: "Our approach will be that of a newspicture magazine supplementing the daily and Sunday paper and trying to interpret news rather than report...