Word: understand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Through it all. friends say, Mrs. Coolidge has longed to return to the friendly Pittsfield atmosphere. There was no other explanation for having the festival there last week instead of in Washington. Outsiders understand that each new work earned $500 for its composer. There were four new U. S. offerings-a rambling Sonata by Henry Eichheim; a conservative Quintet by John Alden Carpenter; a hard, austere Trio by Roy Harris; a crafty Sextet by Edward Burlingame Hill. Critics preferred the things they had heard before-the earthy string sextet of Bohuslav Martinu, a Czech; the chromatic, well-knit Triptyque...
...perfectly easy to understand why the Prince of Wales has never married...
...very old business school, Sir Douglas never used to publish any annual report at all. If a stockholder wanted to find out how his company was doing, he had to take pad & pencil to the meeting where the report was read-usually so rapidly that no one could understand it. From Sir Douglas' grudging remarks, a stockholder usually gathered the impression that, what with rising taxes and general social unrest, the outlook for the sewing machine business was practically hopeless. Yet for years Singer profits ranged between $20,000,000 and $25,000,000 annually. The stock, traded inactively...
...Throughout my years of campaigning I have always asked myself, 'How can I say what I have to say in such a manner that the humblest man of the people will understand me? How can I establish contact between myself and my hearers...
...aware that often I was saying something that to the intellectual seemed a platitude, and I can understand why intellectuals wondered why in addition to pronouncing self-evident facts I even dwelt upon them and illustrated them. Yet I always said to myself, 'There is this or that humble man in my audience who does not yet quite comprehend what I am driving at, so I must make it clear to him by the humblest illustration from daily life...