Word: understand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...libraries, physicians and surgeons and, especially, to laymen who are interested in cancer research. Regarding its emphasis on this last group, a spokesman for the hospital said: "TIME'S story was well done, and it tells the story of cancer effectively and in language the layman can understand. We think that as many laymen as possible ought to read...
...political debaters: "Puts another weapon in the hands of the criminal world." "Converts the constitutional Bill of Rights into a suicide pact." "I give up-now I realize fully what Mark Twain meant when he said, 'The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.' " Some citizens who were personally affected by the justices' rulings couldn't help but agree with the justices' earthiest criticisms of themselves...
Bernard Shaw this week warned foreigners visiting Britain to speak broken English: "Even among English people, to speak too well is a pedantic affectation. In a foreigner it is something worse than an affectation. It is an insult to the native who cannot understand his own language when it is too well spoken...
Sometimes, for reasons which medicine does not yet understand, a cell turns out to be different from normal cells. Most such "mutations," less competent than the normal cells, die and are absorbed by the body. But occasionally a variant cell appears that is disastrously competent...
This whole problem raises a grave dilemma, as my letter doubtless indicates; I cannot find any simple answer. I should like to see Marxist doctrine vigorously and clearly expounded in our universities; we must understand the strength of Communism, and the power of its appeal to many people, if we are to act wisely in the world today. But a frank clear exposition of Marxist doctrine is the last thing to be expected from men trained to work by undercover methods. The usual formulas by which one attempts to guarantee freedom of speech and teaching are all, I fear, inadequate...