Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cultural or political-are really inseparable. And that is why it makes me very happy to see that the art world of a country as large and as important to civilization as the United States ... is taking its stand against those barbaric tendencies which today endanger all that we understand by civilization and culture and all that we love...
...husbands have taken to sleeping in the guest room "after 26 years!" Get your husband to a doctor, is her advice for women whose mates are embarrassed with frequency and difficulty of urination. "Naturally such a condition affects any husband's marital life. That's easy to understand. And he approaches any treatment for it reluctantly because he thinks the doctor's instruments will, in effect, wreck any chance for its [marital relationship's] survival. That is not true. In the majority of cases, any potency and libido which had existed are more than likely...
Ohio's Vic Donahey has lately boasted that he will vote against the Pope-McGill Farm Bill pending in the Senate on the ground that he cannot understand it. This was practically the only complaint not offered by various rebellious members in the House last week, as Chairman Marvin Jones of the Agriculture Committee maneuvered his 86-page Farm Bill toward the first vote taken in either House on a part of the President's program for the special session...
...anthropologists had as clear a picture of human evolution as they have of horse evolution (a neat series ascending from four-toed little eohippus), their lives would be less exciting but laymen would understand them better. Professor Dubois first ascribed Pithecanthroptis to the Pleistocene or Glacial Age, then shifted him to the preceding period, the Pliocene. Although extremely apelike, he was admitted to the human family by the skin of his primitive teeth, but Professor Dubois has changed his mind again, now pigeonholes the ancient creature as an ape related to the gibbons. Professor Dubois considers that all the original...
...experiments, Professor Boring replied that they are very "Interesting." But he claims that the results are so far "negative." "No one yet has any plausible hypothesis as to what extra-sensory perception is. When you investigate and find a phenomena occurring, all you have is something you don't understand...