Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Even if the charges against Gladstone are true, what of it? Mr. Gladstone's morals did not affect his statesmanship; they are unimportant, for his statesmanship is what lives today. It is a characteristic of petty minds merely to seize what they can understand; and it seems that hundreds of petty minds must be writing biography today. Those that are afflicted with a conscience argue that their dissections are merely application of the scientific method in the search for truth. But there is truth and Truth. It is truth to say that Walt Whitman had perhaps half a dozen illegitimate...
...episode has caused much consternation among those who knew her at Urbana, where she had adopted bobbed hair, short skirts, and other marks of the superior western civilization. They find it hard to understand how, after being exposed to the cultural advantages of the Illinois university, she could so far revert to barbarism as to marry a prince of her own race, and what is more, to stay by his side when he is in danger. There are some, however, who admire the Princess for doing so, when she might be living in the luxury of Hollywood, writing...
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...Northwestern University, Chicago, Dr. A. C. Ivy, Professor of physiology, cut the stomach out of a dog two years ago. Last week he commented: "Instead of gulping down his food, this dog eats slowly and the food is perfectly digested in the intestinal trac He appears to understand that he must masticate thoroughly and takes him 12 hours out of 24 for his meals. This test shows how patients who have had part of ther stomachs removed because of cancer should...
...This statement is entirely unofficial as I am not authorized to speak in any capacity for my University. I understand however that officials of the University used every effort to discourage publication of the article...