Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been viewing samples of costume jewelry. In a scuffle the employer is killed. The prize-fighter wanders off in a daze while his wife is tried and convicted of murder. He returns in time to confess. How and why the prize-fighter escapes the electric chair, cinema audiences will understand only if they have seen the very beginning of Jealousy and waited patiently to the very last. Audiences who miss the whole thing will not be losers...
...Nazi press agent showed when he allowed the telegram which Magoun had sent to be published in the Nazi organ, DEUTSCHE ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG. for October 11. Magoun insisted that he had cabled the Harvard alumnus as one close friend to another, and that he was at a loss to understand why "Putsy" had broken faith over this personal matter...
...enacted by the new Congress this winter. The great Democratic majority had not only sworn to uphold the President but many of them had taken an additional pledge to vote for unemployment insurance. Yet last week many a Congressman who had taken this double pledge did not really understand what he had promised, thought of "un-employment insurance" as some sort of panacea that would lift the burden of depression unemployment from the U. S. The President showed by his speech that he knew better, knew that it would not solve the present relief problem, would be slow in getting...
...giving a short series of lectures, it is difficult for the lecturer to lay a factual foundation for the dissertation," he said. The student is consequently plunged into a discussion with only his general knowledge of the subject to help him understand it, Under the pressure of required courses it can hardly be expected that he will do preliminary reading on the subject. There, I think that the tutorial reading of students interested in the lectures might be chosen to given them a better understanding of the topic under consideration...
...present science requirement does not seem equipped to give students the proper attitude toward the scientific approach to knowledge. For the non-scientific mind which pretends to call itself an educated one, the proper understanding of the scientific view seems essential. Too many people in the University have little idea of such an attitude, yet they are content in their feeling that since they have taken an elementary course in science they are aware of the scientific method. These elementary courses cannot present to the undergraduate any understanding of such a method, nor should they. It does seem, however, that...