Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Even from the laborer's point of view, it is difficult to understand the advantage of a general strike whose full weight must be borne by the working men themselves. Strikes in a single industry have time and again proven beneficial to labor, shortening hours and increasing pay. But a deliberate paralysis of industrial necessities would seem to threaten the very existence of the present form of society, to attempt the imposition of the will of the Trade Union Congress on parliament. It makes little difference in the final outcome whether a revolution be accomplished by bloodless starvation or gory...
...their works have spent a good deal of money on costumes and left the rest to the words and music. In reality the operas need the deft and specialized treatment demanded by any unique type of entertainment. Probably most producers, preoccupied with sex appeal and the Charleston, do not understand Gilbert and Sullivan. It has remained for Winthrop Ames to reveal them so perfectly that everyone may understand and may enjoy...
...however, understand the numerals on their monuments, and have thus been able to establish an accurate chronology of the last 25 centuries...
...understand...
...understand his poetry...