Word: understand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said, there is no reason why this should continue if both sides make efforts to understand each other, and he suggested placing students in local homes to live as a means to this, praising Hitler for making students in Germany live with poor families...
...School; Harvard has offered them little and their children nothing. Yet these thousands of underprivileged youngsters have kept up with the one phase of Harvard has offered them little and their children nothing. Yet these thousand of underprivileged youngsters have kept up with the one phase of Harvard they understand, and although they can never attend the College and are chased away from Soldiers Field, they have been loyal, if at times resentful...
Career: Homer Truett Bone is a round-shouldered, kindly little man with a gloomy viewpoint. In discussing the state of the world, he is apt to remark: "This is a dark and sombre picture." Politicians, whose squabbling Homer Bone heartily dislikes, do not understand why Bone, of all men, should be afflicted by melancholy. Indisputably his State's most popular politician, he amassed 243,682 votes in the Democratic primary this year to 196,876 for all his opponents. He spends no money in the primary, except for gas and oil, and has just returned a $500 check from...
Three fear-crazed salesgirls stared dumbly at their personnel manager. They could not understand at first that he was saying their only chance for life was to wrap the blankets around their heads, dash downstairs through the flames. He was seen to offer to lead the way. The three salesgirls took the blankets and followed for a short distance, then their nerves cracked. Although brave Louis Frichet kept pleading with them and trying to hold them back, all three salesgirls finally, rather than face the flames, leaped off the roof to death. Alone with his blanket, the personnel manager began...
...experiment: When Governor Herbert Lehman spoke from Albany over Station WOR (Newark), Announcer Richard Brooks stood by, slipped murmured interpolations into the microphone. As though the Governor were talking some foreign language the listeners could not understand. Announcer Brooks used intervals of applause to repeat and interpret sections of the speech. Not only did he report a sip of water the speaker took, but he also declared repeatedly that his candidate had scored heavily on Republican Opponent Thomas E. Dewey. Listeners capable of understanding the speech without translation protested. Others kicked about the announcer's editorializing. The Brooks murmuring...