Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With these words TIME, in its May 1, 1939 issue, introduced a new, occasional department, Background For War, dedicated to the proposition that world war was close at hand and that you would understand it better if we reviewed the events which led up to it. The most immediate violent reaction to this new department came from Nazi Germany, which banned TIME for what it considered keeps...
...Generalissimo has been lavish in his promises to impoverished Spain, niggardly in his achievements. In his way, he seems to understand the importance of modernizing Spain's anachronistic economy. Recently he proclaimed a vague ten-year plan for "national improvements . . . old injustices and abuses will be ended . . . redemption is at hand." To build up a mass base, he is said to be studying the technique of Argentina's Juan...
...orchestra." Last week Szigeti played it as a violin concerto, with Leonard Bernstein's New York City Symphony, in its first Manhattan performance. Said the New York Herald Tribune: "How music of such extraordinary value can have escaped [our] attention . . . for four decades is difficult to understand...
...follow Theodore Roosevelt blindly. But he followed him devotedly, in the Republican Party and out of it into the Progressive Party, and when that somewhat anomalous crusade turned into a group of generals without an army, White followed Roosevelt into enforced retirement. Editor White did not understand exactly what historical forces were moving him and thousands of others in the muckraking, reforming, progressive surge that washed the U.S. into the 20th Century. But he felt vaguely, as he rigged political conventions, ran errands between politicians, and fought to put his friends in office, that he was participating in a benevolent...
Seeking a favorable decision from the Allied Control Commission, Friedrich feels that free mail communication, particularly between American and German scholars, will be more effective than public propaganda in helping the Germans understand democracy...