Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Looking Backward. During his first speech, on the City Hall steps, the Prime Minister recalled that he was born "a stone's throw from here, if you have a strong throwing arm." He remembered that his second home was on Margaret Street. Said Mr. King: "I understand there is some kind of holy tabernacle there now-that may have been the influence of my early days." To some of the schoolchildren of Kitchener and neighboring Waterloo, he presented citizenship certificates. When eleven-year-old Marie Good came forward in a plaid skirt and jacket, the Prime Minister asked...
...Matter of Education. "The refusal to believe it is now declining," says Father Lassalle. "Japanese education is responsible for the tragedy. It is not at the bottom bad will, or even pride, but narrow-mindedness and naivete. That is the mistake of the Japanese people. Once they understand what is going on in the world at large they' are wonderful people, but they were not educated to pay attention to any events outside their own country. . . . They only learned about their own island, and they carry their island with them...
...that chartreuse number guaranteed to make sober men think they've had enough; that low-out orange one whose method of support is still uncertain . . . One thing bothers me; I didn't tell mama that these cocktail conglomerations are in men's ROOMS. I'm not sure that I understand THAT. I've boned up on Emily Post; but she doesn't mention such places...
After the fingerprints episode, Dr. Brandenburg was harried frequently by narcotics and abortion charges. When he was arrested last week he was out on bail while appealing one of each. Some laymen may find it hard to understand, but none of his troubles has yet affected his right to practice medicine and he is still a licensed physician in New Jersey...
...Rockefellers sold out to Manhattan's Allen & Co., investment brokers. By 1946, C. F. & I. had a new president husky, Republic Steel-trained Carl Ward Meyers, himself the son of an Ohio steelworker. He thought that management and labor should "get together, study, talk and understand...