Word: interpreting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of you know that TIME conducts a serious and continuing program to interpret to our advertisers, the market that TIME reaches. Occasionally, as a change of pace, we tell our story via an unstatistical brochure like The Sultan's Choice, some excerpts from which are reproduced here in the hope that you will have fun with them...
...written examinations tests ability to read and write in English, ability to read in one foreign language and to comprehend and interpret statistics, and examines an applicant's range and accuracy of information in history and economics...
...spry man with a Germanic love of theory, Marcks makes no bones about what he thinks art should be. "It must be stimulating," he says. "I reject any art that simply amuses. Stimulation, as I interpret it, means leading men to the eternal laws, away from what is common, usual and mean...
Slim Blue Book. Next day the A.F.L., a non-governmental consultant to U.N., used a different method to get the facts across. It submitted a slim, blue-covered booklet containing the testimony of twelve men & women who had survived Russian slave labor camps. To read and interpret their story, the A.F.L. picked a veteran German socialist, tiny Toni Sender, whose renowned taunts of Nazi bigwigs had earned her the epithet "Mrs. Big Mouth." Among the case histories she had gathered...
Henry VIII could never have carried out such acts if there had not been a movement against Rome among his people: it was led by men willing to fight papacy and Church for the freedom to read and interpret the Bible as they saw fit. Henry never countenanced such radicals, and he burned some as heretics during his reign. To Henry, that was just good sense...