Word: understand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...love the South now, understand that," one student from Georgia began, "but they're kidding themselves down there. The South has got to grow...
...swankest hotel. As a plump, well-tailored captain of industry approached, Rosie would appear to be having trouble with her engine, and appeal prettily for help. Her tab was high-anywhere up to 1,000 marks in a city where 20 is the average. Explained a Frankfurt businessman: "To understand those sums you had to know Rosemarie...
...major drive to produce more with fewer workers, placing new emphasis on automation and efficiency. Last week's wage boosts in Detroit (see State of Business) will accelerate the automakers' drive to cut back. Said a vice president of a major steel company: "Labor fails to understand the fact that the more expensive labor gets, the more incentive there is to eliminate it. It costs us $25 a day for every steelworker that walks through the gate. Naturally, there is a great incentive to eliminate that cost...
...some three weeks, a team of workmen from Zandamm, Holland, whom simply no one could understand, assembled the new modern classical organ over at Busch-Reisinger Museum. An auspicious event for music lovers and musical instrument lovers, its christening featured E. Power Biggs and free drinks for all. A late afternoon sun streamed through the windows and onto the stone floor of Romanesque Hall as groups of organists, German professors, and "friends of Busch-Reisinger Museum" clustered excitedly. Voices drifted between the hor d'oeurves...
...understand it only speaks Dutch," confided a woman dressed in a blue chemise...