Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Crowther was interested in the projected broadcasting of scientific lectures from Harvard, but added that "one must not expect too much until the technique of broadcasting lectures has been worked out." He feels that the public is more likely to understand a well written newspaper article, which one may read over and over, than a lecture over the radio where the listener can neither see the lecturer nor have him repeat baffling phrases...
...HUMAN PROGRESS AS THOSE OF CERTAIN WELL KNOWN FINANCIAL SUPPORTERS OF WHAT WAS HIS NAME OH YES LANDON, CONTINUING WITH THE FURTHER LIBERAL ASSUMPTION THAT POSSIBLY THE HITLER EXPERIMENT IN NAZIISM IS NOT QUITE WHAT IS MEANT BY DEMOCRACY, WE MUST CONFESS THAT WE CAN'T EXACTLY UNDERSTAND WHAT TROTSKY AND HIS FOLLOWERS ARE DRIVING AT WHEN THEY ALLY THEMSELVES WITH MR. HITLER AND OTHERS IN A FRANTIC ATTEMPT TO UPSET THE RUSSIAN APPLECART AT ANY COST. OF COURSE IT IS POSSIBLE THAT THE RUSSIAN TRIALS WERE QUITE AS PHONEY AS TIME WITH PERFECTLY UNDERSTANDABLE IF SOMEWHAT UNINFORMED PREJUDICE...
Many Georgia women cannot understand frequent references to Madame Chiang Kai-shek as a Wellesley alumna when they remember her as a student at Wesleyan College, Macon, Ga. Here are the facts...
...also at home because overenthusiastic helpers in emergency are a problem in themselves. No one's feelings have been hurt but we have been given to understand that we can help most by staying at home and will be called if we are needed. If ever there was sure evidence of the value of a City Manager and the City Manager form of government, this great, quiet, unexcited municipality . . would be proof...
Everything he wrote in future was to be submitted not to the regular censor, but directly to the Tsar. What Pushkin did not understand was that the Tsar thought him too potentially useful to be imprisoned, too dangerous not to be watched. But until he discovered that he was not really free, Pushkin was overjoyed, dove into his old gay life with more zest than ever. He even got permission to visit St. Petersburg, gambled away 17,000 rubles in two months...