Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eschews politics, but in a matter that comes so perilously close to home, he feels that he must speak out. To be brief, he considers the provision for 3.2 per cent peer the most piffling undersized insult ever thrown in the face of a great people, and he cannot understand the careless acclaim with which it has been accepted. He is driven to the mournful conclusion that Americans never had any discrimination in their taste for beer, or that they have forgotten it during their period in the local Wasteland. Not only in this, but in all alcoholic matters, they...
...Casually they chatted in Turkish. Later the Albanian Minister said with difficulty to a U. S. matron in Albanian English: "What a strange you Americans are! What a silly! You hire a Turk to be your Minister to Jugoslavia! To me it is a sorry but I could not understand Americans...
...Japan. He has found it in four strains of the common American deer mouse. Because this offers one of the few non-human instances in which abnormal behavior can be traced to a definite hereditary characteristic. Dr. Dice believes that further study of affected mice may help man to understand how he inherits nervous peculiarities...
...understand that Mr. Mackay has parted with nothing else, and as far as I am aware the acquisition of these objects by the Museum does not indicate in any way an intention on his part to break up his collection...
...timely in getting out this plea for a realignment of religious thinking. He exhorts us to accept the religion of Christ as he taught it and exemplified it in his life. Shaw has come to the conclusion that a large number of people are now intelligent enough to understand that which only the "best minds" had grasped up to the time of the present social revolution...