Word: understandingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Your subcommittee of the Ways & Means has pending . . . [the Guffey] bill to stabilize the bituminous coal mining industry. ... I understand that questions of the Constitutionality of some of its provisions have arisen. . . . Manifestly, no one is in apposition to give assurance that the proposed act will withstand Constitutional tests, for the simple fact that you can get not ten but a thousand different legal opinions on the subject. But the situation is so urgent and the benefits of the legislation so evident that all doubts should be resolved in favor of the bill, leaving to the courts, in an, orderly...
...wont formerly to regard us. ... The Americans are beginning to wonder whether we are all of us quite so stupid as we look. The French remain convinced that we are all of us far more stupid even than we appear. The Germans, in their pathetic inability to understand others, continue to believe that we are a race of brilliant and unscrupulous egoists...
...Moody serving. In the stands, the capacity crowd of 19,000, many of whom had stood in a queue all night to get a seat, leaned forward, silent as death. It was, they realized, the crucial point of the most exciting match that Wimbledon had ever seen. To understand why it was the most exciting it would have been necessary to know something of what led up to it, to understand, for instance, exactly why two young women from California who, if they had wanted to see which was the better tennis player, could have done so any afternoon...
...dealing with sexual difficulties Dr. Kanner gets best results by frankly and truthfully answering all the child's questions in words which the child can understand. However, he carefully avoids telling the child anything which the child cannot understand. The answers should be intellectual, not moral, because the healthy child is not naturally moral...
...Kanner urges parents to be patient with bothersome children, to tell them all the truth they can understand, to lie never, to beat them never, to show them a composed, orderly example ever. If a parent provides such a common sense environment for his child to grow up in. and if the child is kept well and cured of physical imperfections, then Dr. Kanner promises the child will naturally grow up to be a perfect, healthy little lady or gentleman...