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Word: understand (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...down to the Keechi Creek, baited up with rabbit entrails, fished all night long. Uncle Row could catch catfish, when no one else could. There was a secret to it, but Uncle Row said: "Bless my soul, I'd explain it to you but you wouldn't understand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Funeralizing Uncle Row | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

Nobody would appreciate this more than Boston Skating club publicity manager Ben Wright. "It would be wonderful for figure skating in this region," Wright claims. "We made dick an honorary life member of the Club, and he should be a real inspiration for the younger members." Wright can't understand why some people think figure skating is a feminine sport. "Anybody who feels that way should watch Button for five minutes," he explains. "When Dick goes into the air, he uses up just as much energy as a broadjumper...

Author: By Stephen N. Cady, | Title: Dick Button Set to Defend Three Figure Skating Titles | 12/9/1948 | See Source »

After that, the conference got down to business. "Let the mind of man be free," cried U.S. Delegation Chairman George V. Allen, "and it will soar to undreamed of heights of majesty. Let people understand each other, and they will create a world order of peace and human betterment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONFERENCES: Without Distinction | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

...stopped close to the border by a tired old dog who asked what all the excitement was about. "Haven't you heard?" panted the rabbit. "The Kremlin has decided to emasculate every elephant in Russia." The dog shook his head in mystery. "But I still don't understand," he said. "Why on earth should that worry you? They said nothing about rabbits, did they?" "Fool!" hissed the rabbit. "You don't know those people in the Kremlin. They'll emasculate me first-and then make me prove I'm not an elephant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: THE STORIES THEY TELL, Dec. 6, 1948 | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

About a year ago, a comrade appeared at her back door to ask a slight favor: "Nothing dangerous, nothing incriminating, you understand ..." A young girl whose family had been killed in the 1944 uprising was in trouble with the police. Of course, the affair would blow over in a couple of days-meanwhile, could Stavroula keep the girl out of sight? She agreed. The girl stayed on for weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Front Woman | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

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