Word: understandingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chief model for eight years before she became his second wife. Rumania's King Carol noticed Crown Prince Michael, 11 lording it over the public-school boys who share his work & play in the palace. Said King Carol: "There's one thing you fellows must understand. If any of you let Michael hit you without giving him a good hiding, you can look for serious trouble with me." Few days later Prince Michael turned up with a badly-bunged nose. Next day. while Carol of Rumania inspected a machine gun factory at Cluj, a General suddenly bawled...
This, however, does not mean that our delegates sailed knowing in advance that they were going to refuse stabilization. The attitude which they are now stubborn in seems rather to be a sudden shift caused in part by the unexpected results of recent measure. It is difficult to understand why the President should not accept the offer of gold-standard countries who wish to secure our money at the same rate we are waiting for, and why the Federal Reserve is tacitly encouraged to operate in foreign exchange to support the dollar when it obviously cannot influence the franc...
...convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Chicago. Americans work primarily with instruments. Europeans with imagination. Thus Danish Niels Bohr's philosophizing about the unmeasurable duality of Nature before the A. A. A. S. was a fascinating novelty which his audience tried hard to understand...
...audience felt better when Professor Bohr, fiddling with a loudspeaker cord, short-circuited the apparatus and made it blare. It was much easier, and more pleasant, to understand round-faced young Professor Ernest Orlando Lawrence of the University of California tell how he transmuted elements with "deuton" bullets...
...draw. Many a reader will agree with her, will sympathize with her bewilderment when she confesses: "I'm uncertain . . whether the Count de Savine is editing me or I him. I am cleverer than he is-I think-but I am not sure whether I see more or understand more. Simply, I say more and I understand that I don't understand...