Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...statement from the Red Cross read in part: "We understand there has been a racial controversy at the Club. The Red Cross cannot take sides in a controversy of this sort." They asserted though, that the services of the group are available to all, regardless of "race, creed, or color...
Italians could not understand a grown man making such a fuss about being baptized; said one Rome theatergoer: "We get that taken care of the first week we're alive." Wrote Rome's independent Il Momento: "This is a prime example of American qualunquismo. . . .* It is naturally acclaimed by a people who like to see on their stage only a depiction of their own small lives." Wrote another: "Who knows but what [Premier] De Gasperi may have got mixed up in the theater and staged this? Like him, it praises all the simple virtues...
...French Composer Olivier Messiaen a musical messiah or a voice from the jungle? Critics differed. Few claimed to understand his message. Others doubted that...
Last week Suzuki, like thousands of other students, was still lost and bewildered. Said he: "We students talk and talk, but cannot find the answers. How do you figure values between the former education and the present? If one is better than the other, we must understand it. But we have no one who can tell us. In Japan today there are many restrictions which MacArthur has placed upon the people which are not the will of the people. Where is the difference between democracy and what we had before...
...extreme case, but not a unique one. Dr. Stella Center, 69, who helped found the clinic ten years ago and now directs it, says sadly: "We are a nation of sixth-grade reading skill." She thinks a high-school graduate should read from 350 to 400 words a minute, understand at least 85% of what he reads. But most Americans who can read at all can read only 150 to 250 words a minute. Some 300 colleges have had to start reading classes for freshmen. Even many college graduates do not know how to read rapidly or well...