Word: understandingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: I've been waiting years for the chance to be one of the bright lads whose letters inform readers that "TIME erred," so you can understand my elation when I saw the picture in the Aug. 27 issue in which you have Partners Simon and Schuster confused...
...possibly you can understand why I discredit TIME...
...every Russian child knows, the Young Pioneers?Bolshevik boy and girl scouts?have had plenty of suffering and struggling in Russia, largely at the hands of oldsters unable to understand the ideals of Young Russia. In December 1932, there was the case of little Pavel and Fedor Morosov. Pavel & Fedor were Young Pioneers and they knew that their father, president of a local Soviet, was secretly in league with village kulaks. As a good Pioneer, Pavel promptly peached on papa but other villagers did not appreciate the children's rectitude. They tracked Pavel & Fedor to the woods, hacked their bodies...
Meanwhile Moscow made an even stiffer threat, hurled by Soviet Vice President Kuznetsov of C. E. R. Said he: "The Soviet Government will protect the railway employes. The defenses along the border are now complete and the Soviet will not be forced to sell too cheaply. The world powers understand the danger of Japanese armaments. . . ." As the week closed, nervous Mr. Hirota's friends insisted that despite the break in negotiations he would soon be prepared to haggle again with Ambassador Yurenev...
...matters?Sex and Fairy Tales? Dr. Adams sharply disagrees with "advanced" psychologists. A child, she says, is inquisitive, gullible but not equipped to understand scientific facts. It does not matter whether the parent attributes babies to God, a mother or a cabbage patch. Let the parent be casual, unselfconscious and not worry if the child refuses to believe what he is told or quickly forgets or misunderstands. Likewise Dr. Adams says fairy tales do no harm because the child's world is an arbitrary one, "a definite period of living which has its own characteristic prejudices and predilections...