Word: understandingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same period a year ago; renewed a greater percentage of expiring subscriptions. Cancellations because of the munitions article : One. But FORTUNE doubts that anything like 90% of the U. S. populace would read the magazine at any price.-ED. "If" Sirs: For those TIME readers who can't understand and appreciate TIME'S terse, pictorial style- certainly for those who didn't see the point in the "Suppose Curtis B. Ball . . ." article, there is a little newspaper using only a 900-word vocabulary. Since it is intended for foreigners learning English, deaf elementary-school children (whose handicap...
...charm and delicacy with which it was directed by J. Walter Ruben and acted by an expert cast. Clive Brook is almost as funny while manipulating his guests into embarrassing situations as Reginald Owen while uttering sleepy roars of indignation at finding himself in a predicament he cannot understand. Diana Wynyard's cool and enigmatic smile gives an accent of high comedy to sequences which might otherwise have been childish. Good shot: Leonard, when he has drained a tumbler of Mr. Latimers whiskey, explaining that he has done so "under protest...
Last week the American Banker discovered that so many bankers had fallen for this old racket that it published a warning editorial of nearly three columns. For U. S. bankers big & little its homely advice was: "Do not sign any blank unless you understand thoroughly every word...
...with completely unjustified violence," that "three of the arrested men were slugged after they had reached the station house, at least one of them into unconsciousness." It declares that Inspector Goodman and Officer Gouldston of the Boston police are neither "competent to conduct their work" nor "intelligent enough to understand the psychology of the people with whom they are dealing...
...Jahore until the up-to-date animal-catcher from America went to Asia. By the time the picture has run its course, so simple a thing as the coralling of a whole herd of elephants becomes just a matter of course. We are incidentally given to very definitely understand that Frank Buck is really quite a fellow when it comes to animal baiting...