Word: understand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hours twice a week, covers every field of postwar reform from taxes and public health to trade unionism and the new constitution. Given in seventh-grade language, it is designed to teach 30 million adults, in the next five years, "the principles of democracy which everyone can understand...
...Bellboys not only play baseball well, they also play baseball smart, and that's really the same thing. At the plate or on the field, they understand the fine points of baseball tactics. While they were slaughtering Dunster, for instance, Goldsmith stole five bases (second once, third twice, and home twice...
...materialism does not recognize Genesis; no less an authority than the Big Soviet Encyclopedia calls the story of the flood a "myth" which "up until .the 19th Century had done great harm to the sciences." Snorted Pravda last week: "It is quite enough to look at a map to understand the real meaning of the biblical amusements of these Anglo-American imperialists. The true purposes of such an expedition are as far from archeology as Sykes is from great-grandfather Noah." In London, 54-year-old Archeologist Sykes scratched his white mane in wonder...
...patient arrives, often in a straitjacket, Brand has a technique: "I give them a good talking to. 'This is your home,' I tell them. 'It's up to you if you are going to have a new life.' Most of them really understand me. Not one has ever tried to strike me." But even if patients should hit an attendant, Brand says, the attendant should not strike back, but "put them in a side room and tell them to lie down...
After DiMaggio's operation last fall, enough new calcium had formed in the surrounding heel tissue to cause new trouble. The doctors could well understand that Joe felt pain when he tried to run or pull up to a quick stop...