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Word: understandable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chance Franklin Roosevelt failed to understand Mr. Garner last week he could have found substantially the same advice expressed with equal cogency elsewhere. In her Washington Herald last week, Publisher Eleanor Patterson, sister of Publisher Joseph M. Patterson of the proletarian and pro-Roosevelt New York Daily News, ran an open letter headlined WHAT YOU COULD SAY, PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT. In it she took the President's "dare" to tell him exactly what to say "that would banish fear." Cissie Patterson's remedies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Pitching in a Pinch | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

...real poet, Author Shephard will not admit. Says she, the whole thing was a pose, based on a second-rate French novel. As a result, her book is likely to stand as a carefully documented, well worded, 453-page demonstration of its author's unfortunate inability to understand Whitman, his poems, or his times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Baffled Critic | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

Another thing Eddie can't understand is the colleges "straight laced" attitude toward students playing summer ball for a semi-pro team. Collins argues that there's no difference between picking up money in baseball and business...

Author: By Sheffield West, | Title: Eddie Collins Upholds Sponsorship of College Baseballers by Big Leagues | 4/16/1938 | See Source »

...Evolution of Physics" costs fifty cents more than that amount and is worth to the reader a king's ransom, if there could be valued in money the stimulation and pleasure of a journey in pure reason toward an understanding of matter and space. It is not an easy book to read. Though mathematical formulae are completely left out and the words are short and there are many illustrations and metaphors, the subject matter is inherently difficult. Einstein, of course, can be expected to understand his own theory more clearly than any of his popularizers, and much more clearly than...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bookshelf | 4/15/1938 | See Source »

...descriptions of events in time and space to probability waves, and the problem of placing such waves in the field concept of space is a major one. Suppose that a solution is found; in what way are we better off? Dr. Einstein is not sure. "In our endeavor to understand reality we are somewhat like a man trying to understand the mechanism of a closed watch. He sees the face and the moving hands, even hears its ticking, but he has no way of opening the case. If he is ingenious he may form some picture of a mechanism which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bookshelf | 4/15/1938 | See Source »

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