Word: understandingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tradition is like a friendship between men who have no individuality. There are, of course, many working for real internationalism but they are hampered by those who preach an ideal built in the air. Before the international ideal can be made real it will be necessary for nations to understand their own tradition. Nations like the United States must come of age before they can be partners in a cooperative world...
...days of rioting two people were killed, some 60 wounded. North Irish authorities including His Grace the Duke of Abercorn, Governor of Northern Ireland, and Sir Charles Wickham, Inspector General of the Royal Ulster Constabulary, were bewildered by the violence of the outbreak, could not understand how normally law-abiding Ulstermen could be so aroused...
...punctuate what you have to say with 'See?' 'Understand me?' or 'Do-you-get-what-I-mean...
...city budget . . . for 1933 I have asked . . . that the City Council appropriate $100,000 for the maintenance of the Zoological Garden. ... If this sum of money cannot be made available ... it will soon become absolutely necessary to dispose of the animals and close the gardens. . . . You should clearly understand that the closing of the gardens cannot be easily accomplished. On account of the depression in the animal market it now appears to be impossible to dispose of the animals . . . therefore we will be faced with the only alternative ... to destroy them...
...years since he wrote a novel, four years since he retired to Marion. Va. to run two country newspapers. Sensitive as a weathervane to the intellectual current of the day, but dizzied beyond his normal bewilderment by conflicting winds of doctrine, he has been doing his unlevel best to understand and express what, if anything, the U. S. is driving at. Though he has always sympathized with the individual Americano aspiring to be an individual, he has been impressed by the intelligentsiae preoccupation with Communism. Beyond Desire, the muddled result of his latest feelings, is neither fish, flesh nor good...