Word: understandingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...easier to entangle. World trade must be restored, prices of commodities increased, tariffs made more reasonable, the various barriers of trade, such as quotas and embargoes, removed, disarmament pushed forward. Which brings us back to the war debts. Nobody denies the legality of these debts; few who really understand the history of them deny that they are just. But there come times to all of us when we have to make compromises. That time has come with the war debts and the duty of the Democratic Administration is to reach a final settlement which will be really advantageous...
...Yale match which is to be played on Saturday afternoon in the Linden Street Courts, "the more I am convinced of the advisability of the hard, side wall game. Perhaps the first difficulty I meet in training good players into this style is one of making them understand that an occasional soft shot played along the wall is more vulnerable than the average match-play corner shot. In other words, the corner shot that is not perfectly executed is a set-up for the other player, whereas the ball hit from the rear of the court is comparatively hard...
...ordered historical argument, whose headings tot up to a respectable "Individualist Manifesto," Kallen contends that present U. S. leaders "neither face nor understand" the present situation. Industrialism, depersonalizing human relations, "has aborted 'Americanism' as an ideal and has thwarted workers as individuals." Constitution-worship, Fascism, Communism spring not from hope but from fear. Since societies exist only by the consent of their members, a withdrawal of consent (as in the case of Prohibition) nullifies society's laws and purposes. The history of the U. S., thinks Kallen, "is the history of an unremitting warfare in behalf...
...brother down on the farm who seems to get more milk from the cowds than anyone else. Say, has that man get pull! Of course, the Metropolitan is becoming more than a theatre. Dancing in the Grand Lounge affords an agreeable interlude for those Jazz crazed youngsters unable to understand the classics of Sevitzky: who, by the way, is said to be Koussevitzky's nephew. Patrous taking in a matince can try their cigarette stained hands at ping pong. We have yet to investigate the rumors that there are piano selections and bridge lessons available some-where amid the marble...
...understand it," said Terminal Man Bush last week, "though I am beginning to like some of the things in spite of myself...