Word: understandingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...failure of industry to respond to the artificial stimuli embodied in recovery legislation. With this obstacle removed from the path to prosperity, the government new faces again the barrier of labor hostility. But with 20,000,000 people on the federal relief rolls, it is impossible to understand the opposition of sincere labor leaders to a program whose stated objective is the reemployment of idle millions. Granted that in this process there may be infractions of the notorious Section 7a, granted also that wages may fall to rise as fast as labor might desire. But a plan whose ultimate...
...half-dozen tongues as three obscure men were laid to rest. The dead buried, a handful of women surged around Governor-elect Earle to scream in Italian: "If you don't send those murderers to the electric chair we'll kill them ourselves." He did not understand, but later he passed the hat among his friends for the families of the newly dead...
...substance of Through Space and Time was delivered last winter as a course of lectures before the Royal Institution, which invites its annual speakers to discourse "in a style adapted to a juvenile auditory." Sir James took for granted almost no qualifications of his audience beyond ability to understand plain English. Highlights of the indisputable universe as presented by Evangel Jeans...
...difficult to understand what Governor Moer hopes to gain by this sudden military offense. He cannot be doing it for the good of the state, which means that in all probability he is considering his own advancement. He may wish to consolidate his position, or he may seek some nebulous political advantages. No one can object to a Governor trying to stand on his own feet, but in doing so, he must not tread on the toes of others...
...Londonderry House rushed correspondents. "Lord and Lady Londonderry advise me to say," intoned their butler at the door, "that they do not know anything about the matter and deny the report." When Lady Helen emerged, the correspondents swarmed around her. "I cannot understand how the report originated," said she. "It is ridiculous." But she did not specifically deny...