Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...understand thoroughly how the system of concentration has evolved, one must consider what the demands of education are today. Is it as useful for the student to scrape the surface of knowledge, even though the general grasp appears most important to him, as it is for him to gain a fairly workable ground-work of some specific field? Undoubtedly, the most important element gained from a college education is the method of thinking which enables the student to get immediately to the crux of a problem. The ordinary graduate faces detailed and intricate questions which he must be able...
...Understand gentlemen, I am not accusing M. Pressard of any part in the Prince murder or even making such an insinuation. I am merely drawing the logical conclusion between what Judge Prince said and his death." The son and widow of Judge Albert Prince were far less circumspect. Through their lawyers last week they issued a 10,000-word statement, going all over the same ground and concluding: "After his interview with Judge Lescouvé, Judge Prince said to Max Buteau: 'Between Pressard and me, there is hatred to the death.' How is it possible not to place...
...affiliates began to buy Corn Exchange in the open market and elsewhere. Albert Henry Wiggin wanted to make Chase the biggest bank in the U. S. He did-but not by gobbling up $245,000,000 Corn Exchange, which advertises "a bank statement that any man or woman can understand." Chase, whose statement at that time no man but Bankster Wiggin could understand, bought & bought until it owned a 20% interest. But Mr. Wiggin was kept busy by other jobs, and the 150,000 shares gathered dust in the Chase vaults. Last week Chase's Chairman Winthrop Aldrich, still...
...takes but a small knowledge of astronomy to help one to better understand the arrangements of the heavens and the order of the universe and Doctor Bok successfully and interestingly presents the necessary minimum in Astronomy 1. The lectures and reading cover the mechanisms of the physical universe from the atom to the galaxy while the laboratory work concerns itself with the more mechanical problems such as orbit determination and star distribution. With a knowledge of algebra and trigonometry the student should find this course one of the more pleasant ways of fulfilling his science requirement while those taking mathematical...
...Senate Majority Leader Robinson last week called the bill "very extreme," adding: "I believe we will pass a stockmarket bill which will not damage anyone excessively and still be effective." Speaker of the House Rainey said: "I haven't talked with many Committee members but I understand there is an awful demand for revision. . . . There is considerable talk of liberalization and I think this can be done without destroying the efficacy of the plan...