Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shanghai, when she did not reply to a challenge she did not understand, a Japanese sentry slapped the face of Mrs. Florence Massie, second wife of Lieutenant Thomas H. Massie who in 1932 served a one hour sentence for killing an Hawaiian accused of rape by his first wife (Mrs. Thalia Fortescue Massie, who divorced...
...read the earthy tabloid produced in this building. Every News executive knows that the inscription is not an empty slogan, for the News has profited and grown because of the publisher's uncommonly sensitive common touch. Its blunt advice to advertisers: Tell it to Sweeney-the Stuyvesants will understand...
...other side of the ledger there appears to be only the vague objection that somehow twenty associate members would miraculously destroy a feeling of unity in the minds of two hundred and fifty colleagues. It is hard to understand the point of view which would attribute the these small groups the sweeping power of "turning the Houses into dormitories"; and when it is realized that the expedient is a temporary one, and that the benefit to the now homeless three hundred would far outweigh any possible inconvenience to the Houses, it seems very little to ask that the proposal...
...letter Davis thought the public would interpret the refusal of the Corporation to reinstate the dismissed Economics instructors as "one further evidence of the failure of corporations to understand or act in accordance with sound educational procedure...
...which was larger than he could displace without consulting me about it, from the firm assets, so he asked me whether it was all right to take it and he explained that he told me at that time- let me see-I want to get this right. As I understand it, he said, "Dick has got into an awful jam in November, and I went to Tom Lament when you were not here and he loaned me the money and so I want to pay him, and will you let me take it out? ..." I said "Certainly...