Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...finally ran the cost of the count to a staggering $850,000. And although P. R. was adopted last year as a reform measure to enfranchise minorities and protect them against Tammany domination, it had not only disfranchised that 16% of the voters who could not understand the ballots but had given the Democrats, snowed under by 450,000 votes for Fusionist Fiorello H. LaGuardia in the mayoralty race, a majority of 14 of the council's 26 members. Having earnestly supported the scheme before the election, the tabloid Daily News last week expressed its disillusionment with characteristic spice...
...weighty periodicals: Journal of Morphology, Journal of Comparative Neurology, Journal of Cellular and Comparative Physiology, Journal of Nutrition, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, five others. These make dismal and mostly incomprehensible reading for laymen, but publication is the lifeblood of science and the specialists who read the Wistar publications understand and appreciate them...
...might, he could not understand what had persuaded the postage stamp magnate to leave Washington just to be an unannounced guest at a primarily Harvard dinner. He remarked this to a friend nearby, feeling rather superior because of his prowess in recognizing the face of one of the higher-ups in the government. The indulgent laugh of the other after looking at the person indicated failed to ruffle him, and he continued to point out Farley to his other neighbors at the table. With similar effect...
This infuriates many a would-be wool buyer who cannot understand the 10? more he must pay to get the raw product. Actually, of course, there is no such direct connection between the future price and the spot price. As on other commodity markets, wool dealers trade in futures largely as a hedge to protect their wool inventories, virtually never make actual delivery in the commodity itself...
...very ordinary guy. Like Letter-Writer Sullivan I've cluck-clucked a lot at "crazy quilt," Cubist paintings. Yet, after reading one paragraph of TIME'S Art article, dumb as I am, I began to understand what such painters are driving at. With TIME'S permission, I'd like to "get hot, get arty as Hell," and ram a few of my thoughts down Sullivan's throat...