Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Count Uchida replied that an investigation is already under way. ..." To incredulous Japanese, National City's Tokyo Branch Manager Daniel Waugh kept explaining: "We took the pictures for advertising purposes! National City wants to advertise the recent industrial developments in Tokyo. Osaka and Kobe. Don't you understand? Such advertising will be for the good of Japan!" "Overzealous Persons." Understanding not one whit, the semi-official Osaka radio station JOBK next day joined Japanese newspapers in spreading charges that National City's photographs were taken for the use of U. S. bombers, stories that "secret American...
...Dearest Dear: Unfortunately, this is the only way to make good the frightful wrong I have done you and to wipe out my abject humiliation. You understand that last night was only a comedy. Paul...
...attention has been called to article "Controlled Washington'' in TIME. Aug. 8. TIME, I understand, wishes to be terse and fair...
...Beasley: "I cannot play tennis. . I understand the strokes . . . expect absolute attention and concentration . . . have now acquired...
...sincerity he uses to explain Bach or Bohr. Realistic, humble, Sullivan calls popular works on science "one of the most unprofitable of all forms of reading," admits ''it seems that I am a man without any marked talents." He wrote his autobiography under the common desire to understand and justify his own existence. Son of an Irish sailor, Shaughnessy-Sullivan had little formal schooling, thinks he missed nothing but "a prodigious waste of mental energy." He got a good job early, with an electrical manufacturing company. His job and his fellow-workers roused his interest in science...