Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seems true, as you say, that most people will never understand more about Relativity than is told by the limerick quoted in the Einstein article [TIME, July 1]. It is not true, however, that the author will refrain from turning over in his grave should you continue to misquote...
...following season Cugat took his polite rhumbas to Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, and later broke attendance records. Cugat credits much of his success to his female vocalists. He selects them "80% on looks and 20% on what goes into the ears. A man can't understand what my girl sings, but if he likes to look at her then I'm all right." Floorshow dancers are also handpicked. One of them, Cugat's niece, became Broadway Actress Margo; another became Hollywood's Rita Hayworth...
With an outstanding Medical School close by it is hard to understand why Harvard cannot tap the store of medical talent allied to the University through Graduate School instructors and faculty members. The plan is in use at midwestern colleges and has provided for inexpensive care to the student body in a broad area covering nearly all the diagnostic and surgical services. A University-maintained pharmacy would supplement these services and go toward the institution of a Health Service closely attuned to the needs and capacities of most students. Clearly these improvements should be considered as an integral part...
Chinese officials winced under the storm, complained that the Americans just did not understand China. Wrote Shih Shih Hsin Pao, former Finance Minister H. H. Kung's own paper, in a painful flash of introspection...
Pucci, handsome and impressive looking, gave visiting newsmen to understand that he was the only real pipeline to the Vatican. Whether he was or not, no one really knew and he frequently had information in advance of other sources; he did, in fact, scoop the world on the election of the last two Popes. But with the coming of war Pucci's stock fell. Soon he was reduced to supplying items to a handful of German and Jap newsmen in Rome. After liberation, new correspondents, who had never heard of him, began covering the Vatican as they would...