Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...book proposes the next step in human progress. Mr. Denison realizes, with the late J. B. Bury, that to understand the causes of civilization and to direct its future development, the laws of its past movement must be ascertained from history with scientific precision. Assuming that civilization always depends on communal effort, the author argues that emotion is the only nexus powerful enough to hold men together. The emotions that have united human societies in the past he analyzes into two categories: patriarchal, which makes for perpendicular ordering of individuals as in the Roman Catholic Church; and fratriarchal, or horizontal...
...securing proper materials, having in mind economy, quality, delivery, and service third, the keeping in touch with markets of various products which are frequently purchased, and finally, to provide a certain amount of sales resistance in opposition to the professional salesman. It is obvious that only men who understand the requirements of a business are really desirable as members of the purchasing department staff, and the general rule that a man should have experience in the line, before going into the staff, is here exemplified...
Hundreds of messages have been received by the publishers of TIME since BRITON HADDEN died. The expressions printed here reveal the appreciation of his character by a group of men who knew him and who had already come to understand his genius...
...come in late and strewing his clothes all over the room would thus make it impossible for his roommates to overlook the fact that he had been to a party. When he arose at noon he would regale them with wondrous tales of his experiences. But he never could understand his roommates,--that was the one smirch on his college life...
...soft formality of that statement expresses something in Commander Byrd which the press, while hailing his exploits scientific and otherwise, has found it hard to understand. Byrd the explorer, Byrd the grown-up Boy Scout, have obscured Byrd the romanticist, who now, in his wife's name, is recorded on the map of the world...