Word: understand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...honor students, but please give us credit for a reasonable amount of intelligence. Unfortunately I have at one time or another become quite intimate with the Cambridge police. A week ago the desk sergeant down at Central Square gave me the following bit of information: He could not understand why that parking area should be a fire hazard at night and not in the day. After all, less fires start from cigarettes when the students are asleep. During the daytime students are in class, taking their car keys with them, whereas at night it is reasonable to suspect that someone...
...Menningers feel that every psychiatrist should himself have had some kind of psychological distress; otherwise, he might have "a kind of character rigidity" that would make it difficult for him to understand his patients' troubles. Facetious skeptics suspect that psychiatrists are themselves psychiatric cases...
...first concert in the Metropolitan Opera House, damp-eyed crowds cheered, for it was wartime, and the orchestra started off an evening of French masters with an unforgettable lump-in-the-throat performance of La Marseillaise. Banker Otto H. Kahn made an appropriate speech: "If we ever failed to understand her, the great soul of France now stands revealed in splendor...
...best in movies. Perhaps a fourth are ornate salon stuff (gnarled trees in silhouette, etc.), often mistaken for Art. The rest is high-grade Hollywood sound stage. It is not hard to believe that one cameraman is capable of all three kinds, but it is hard to understand why a man capable of the best could willingly put them all into one picture. That is the kind of movie Johnny Belinda...
...nation the result would be the undermining, and possibly the scrapping, of many of the great social and economic agencies built up over the past sixteen years. This is what Mr. Dewey's efficiency would mean in Washington. And this is what makes the Governor's campaign difficult to understand. It is difficult to see where his proposed Department of Social Welfare would fit into such a "house-cleaned" Administration. And it is difficult to reconcile Mr. Dewey's talk of federal reclamation and flood control with his support of the Republican policy of leaving control of tide-lands...