Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British zone of Germany, where I have been for a year. It is difficult to be an American here today, working with persons of English and continental nationality who are so tired, after over six years of conditions which the American public, and particularly political leaders, can never understand. The gulf between our standard of living and that of these other nations is too great for world security or understanding...
...Cambridge University Press picked the dean of Harvard's liberal, 300-year-old Divinity School, a New England Congregationalist with a B.A. from Oxford. Published last week, Dean Willard L. Sperry's Religion in America (Macmillan; $2.50) gets its points across in a manner Britons will understand-emphasis-by-understatement, damnation-by-faint-praise, denunciation-in-a-soft-voice...
...snatched from his disheveled files, and he stood to make $50,000 from it. (Last year his Book about the Bible, a similar sampling from his "B" files, surprised its publisher-and its author-by selling 30,000 copies.) Mildly bewildered, Bachelor George Stimpson muttered: "I don't understand about money; they either don't give you any or they throw...
...Patterson and his best friend, Max Annenberg, the circulation genius whom the cousins had hired away from Hearst, found a way out and up. They dumped the News on foreign-language newsstands for buyers who could understand its pictures if not its captions, and peddled it to subway riders who seemed to have a boundless appetite for crime and sex stories...
...Patterson could understand the issue of the nickel subway, and the fact that two battleships were better than one. But larger facts were beyond him: facts like the world's oneness. He resented the spread of Communism but was entirely willing to let the whole of Europe go Communist. The U.S. was the biggest force in the world, but what happened elsewhere was none of our business-until the bombs landed on the U.S. Uncle Sam became Uncle Sap in C.D. Batchelor's News cartoons, and the outside world was a seductive harlot in a tight silk dress...