Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that phrase the charge is made that I would appoint and the Senate would confirm justices worthy to sit beside present members of the Court who understand those modern conditions-that I will appoint justices who will not undertake to override the judgment of the Congress on legislative policy . . . then I say that I and with me the vast majority of the American people favor doing just that thing-now." Strange Bedfellows. Boldly the President amended his Victory Dinner charge that his opponents now and last summer were one & the same, conceded that some liberals honestly differed with him about...
Finding her inspiration in the facts behind the witchcraft of Salem, Miss Winwar proceeds to enlighten and embellish their horror as well as their beauty with the result that the spirit of the times is once more captured and the reader can more easily understand the forces at work to create such a reign of terror. The hatred and intolerance of the straight-laced but hypocritical Puritans with their cast iron moral codes and their frigid attitude is set in striking contrast with the loyalty, the courage, and the affection of their brothers. The narrowness and prejudice of the Puritan...
...together with three other States, is blacklisted for not affording free laboratory examinations to physicians in the diagnosis of syphilis and gonorrhea. To my personal knowledge our State Laboratory, which is under the control of the State University, has extended such service for the past 14 years and I understand, from reliable sources, since 1909. Last year 4,633 blood tests for syphilis and 1,130 examinations for gonorrhea were performed free of charge for the physicians of this State...
...socialite onetime Yale football captain, could well understand the Brady estate's problem, for he is counsel and manager of the great Edward Stephen Harkness estate. But village feeling triumphed and last week Mayor Aldrich began conferring with the village counsel as to possible legal means of keeping "Inisfada" out of the hands of the non-taxpaying Jesuifs...
...more embracive thinking, with particular reference to the increasing complexity and specialization of contemporary society. A physicist must know more than atomic structure, a pianist more than his keyboard, a politician more than his patronage system, a laborer more than his chain-belt. He must also attempt to understand the interrelationship of them all. Hence the demand for new leaders, whether they be philosophic journalists of untrammeled professors...