Word: understandingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opponents of the capitalistic system understand that a balance between saving, investment, and buying is essential to that system's success, and that these three are getting more and more out of gear. They look forward with keen delight to a higher boom and a final collapse...
Conduct remains a personal matter only as long as individuals accept the responsibility which this concept involves. When any large group of them fail to understand, consciously or unconsciously, that they must avoid inflicting useless suffering on others, the matter concerns the community in which they live...
...drinking any potion that might possibly bring on a rash. The youths, on the other hand, by their preponderant opposition to the Oath, indicate that they want to be taught all there is to know. It is at least logical to infer that this longing includes a desire to understand possible substitutes for capitalistic democracy...
...became her lover. She lived in Sofia in a house that was always guarded, was trained to carry messages whose meaning she did not know, traveled as a lady of fashion on the Orient Express, lived the queer, nerve-wracking life of a professional conspirator. Slowly she came to understand that a deep sense of futility was destroying the organization, embittering her lover's life. Despite all the self-sacrifice and passion of individual members, V. M. R. 0. was degenerating into a tool of the great powers, who employed it to harass rivals, reduced it to the level...
...governments struggled for possession of unknown continents. Not a severe critic of Spain's colonial policy, Sociologist Means notes that serious attempts to develop humane methods of governing Indians were consistently made. Simple inexperience was often responsible for practices that later generations defined as brutal. Spaniards could not understand West Indian natives who had no chiefs, did not realize that they were psychologically incapable of comprehending the meaning of complex religious rites. Yet the technique of administration constantly improved, until by 1697 an unarmed priest could make peace with a powerful tribe in Central America, bringing 80,000 under...