Word: understandingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pertinent to refer back to the original thesis to evaluate the relative merit of the subsequent remarks. It was not the desirability of communism for India, that I contested Nor did I offer a brief for jingo nationalism. My opponent's vexation, therefore, at my inability to understand communism "in spite of his efforts," is unwarranted. I contended that imminent triumph of communism in India as envisaged by him was not likely, that the abandonment of Gandhi's methods and introduction of communism "at this juncture" may mean a serious calamity for India. I search in vain in his latest...
Owners of fine radio receivers understand the clangor of nearby thunderstorms and the clatter of distant ones. But a third kind of static, a soft hissing, las been unexplained until last week. Karl Guthe Jansky of Bell Telephone Laboratories announced that hissing static comes from the Milky...
...Durante's boxing match with a kangaroo when he and his shipmates are on shore leave, or Holloway's cracked voice and low comedy face when he is slowly choking to death in a room full of gas. tapping the wall with a hammer and unable to understand why none of the crew, whom he can see through a panel of glass, comes to let him out. Looking Forward (Cosmopolitan). The title of this picture, noisily borrowed from Franklin Delano Roosevelt's book with the President's permission, has almost no pertinence at all. Looking Forward...
...could toddle, showed there was sound stuff in him. Prize of the Shaw family was Jen. Almost unbelievably calm, good-natured, efficiently hardworking, she had run the Shaw household ever since her mother's death. Idealized type of what a farm woman should be, Jen was as understanding as the next one, never bothered her head about not being appreciated; she was well contented to stay forever where Providence had put her. It was Jen who found time, over & above all her mending, cooking, sewing and cleaning, to keep the Shaw family running smoothly. When Ed's black...
...promoted Jose to be timekeeper there. Again Jose did the job satisfactorily, but still he did not like it. When he got a chance to buy a farm and settle down once more he did it. Senor Wilson and Jose's other forward-looking friends could not understand it; but at last Jose was happy. He flattered Maria by marrying her. Meanwhile Father-in-law Marco had been rising in the politico world; now he began to use his new-found power to plague his cast-off family and especially Jose. Jose found himself evicted from his farm...