Word: understandingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This statement goes on to say that the machine age has crowded into our big cities numbers of people of alien birth lacking educational advantages, who therefore find it impossible to understand the numerous complicated laws which the age makes necessary. In the interests of democracy, Legal Aid services have been developed throughout the country, that these people may have the same opportunities for learning their legal rights and obtaining justice as their more wealthy fellow-citizens...
...understand the reference to the women in the "lower brackets." I must belong to that class, but I've been trying to get out of that class. Does it mean that I can get help from the PWA so that I can have several women to help me? If I had that much help, I could take care of my home better and go to "higher brackets...
...puzzled; so I wish that I could understand how to get on better. I can't stay home any more, for I must go to my clubs...
Hard for U. S. citizens to understand is how such tiny spots of sovereignty as Monaco (8 sq. mi.) and San Marino (38 sq. mi.) are permitted to exist within the great States of France and Italy. Monaco, lying within republican France, is ruled by an autocratic prince. Louis II of the House of Grimaldi. Its chief industry is the gambling casino. San Marino, lying within the Fascist kingdom of Italy, is a sturdy little republic. Its chief industry is postage stamps for collectors. Last week, for the first time in history, San Marino sent to Monaco an envoy, Minister...
Last week the Bronx Zoo's director William Reid Blair generously observed: "Persons who feed such things to animals are merely curious, not malicious. They are unable to understand that an animal's digestive system does not necessarily grow more rugged as its size increases...