Word: understand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...copy unless they came back with a written O.K. from a professor. None came back.) But there were plenty of other customers. In Kansas City, a grain merchant bought a copy for his mistress, wistfully wrote on the flyleaf: "I hope this will help you to understand me better." In Miami Beach, where no cabana was considered properly furnished without "the report," one playboy bought 50 copies and sent them to all the women he knew...
...like a machine" that they won the job of building Bullock's new Pasadena branch. Their brash argument: as they had never planned a store, they couldn't palm off an old plan. They built a scale model because "most people can't read blueprints or understand dimensions from sketches." After they got the contract they studied merchandising at Bullock's for a year before drawing final plans. They planned the interior first, then "wrapped the outside around...
...common chord struck in all the stories-sex not as sensual experience but as a disturbing drive that leads people to behavior they can hardly control and but dimly understand. In one beautiful tale, The Babes in the Wood, O'Connor enters the shadow-world of painfully solemn, almost preternatural children who suffer from their elders' illicit affairs. O'Connor's bitterest stories are implicit denunciations of the sexual attitudes-or lack of them-of the prim, provincial and pious sort of Irishwoman. When a husband, desperately annoyed with his wife's unwifely reliance...
Alva F. Kindall, personnel manager of Filene's, urged that aspiring entrepreneurs first take "rough jobs to work side by side with the workers, whose reactions they must know and understand...
...both the tutor's and the student's time would be far better spent in a four hour seminar of ten students than in ten individual one hour tutorial sessions. My experience as an auditor in a graduate seminar here leads me to believe that Harvard generally does not understand the seminar system--it is not just a small lecture where the auditors sit around a table. At Swarthmore, students who are taking a well-conducted seminar do not do it in addition to lectures and the attendant cram examinations. The group, which has been carefully selected on a basis...