Word: understandingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Congratulations to TIME for the Army & Navy section in the issue of March 25. It is entirely unique, because it is entirely accurate. The thinking citizen can better understand what we are, what we have, and what we seek to achieve as a result of that article which is certain to be widely read...
...Buchan's books and Canadian bookstores advertised the volumes they had in stock. Only the loyal Toronto Daily Star bridled: "It may be a little unseemly to be discussing so approvingly the selection of the next Governor-General in the presence of Lord Bessborough, but His Excellency will understand...
...school in the Caucasus he learned that no Mohammedan could enter the Russia's Imperial Naval Academy. His passionate desire to understand the difference between the Moslem and Christian worlds won him two doctorates, taught him to speak, in addition to his native Turkish, Russian, Persian, German, French, English. Before going to Detroit he had been curator of Oriental art at National museums in Vienna and Istanbul. In 1931 he, like Dr. Pope, went to work on the second great exhibition of Persian art in London...
...intention he thus put President Whitney in the position of being a "bolter." Tall, thickset, bespectacled Broker Gay has a background as different from Broker Whitney's as Manhattan is from Brooklyn, where Mr. Gay was born and still lives. ("Although," he says, "some people can't understand why.") Long before Mr. Whitney was ready for Groton, Mr. Gay was clerking in a drygoods house. Later he went into insurance, then coal, finally banking. He bought his seat on the Exchange in 1911. Today Mr. Whitney likes to ride to the Essex Fox Hounds in swank Far Hills...
After 30 years, it is easier for the normally intelligent man to understand the interest that these gruesome figures have for artists, even though he may not be able to comprehend the technical skill, the shrewd relation of form to material that these savage artists used. Their work was not idly decorative but deeply purposeful. They were making religious symbols just as earnestly as the romanesque stone carvers of the 9th Century in Europe. Fear of angry gods and strong enemies was their dominant emotion as they fashioned their fetishes to win divine favor and victory on the battlefield. Wrote...