Word: understandingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Parallel. To understand what was happening in Prussia and Germany last week, suppose the U. S. was composed of 17 instead of 48 states, of which one state, say New York, stretched from Maine to Montana and far into the South, and contained over 50% of the population, with a state police force only a little smaller than the regular Army. Suppose New York City was the capital of this state and of the nation and suppose that of the other 16 states only two were of any importance; a southern, Catholic, reactionary state, still talking Secession, representing Bavaria...
Scientists do not understand thunder and they still argue about lightning. George Clarke Simpson's "breaking drop" theory has been most widely accepted. Experiments have shown that when falling water drops are made to break on a rising column of air, the drops take on a positive charge of electricity, the air and lighter spray a negative charge. Drops large enough to fall against a rising air current are likely to break up and take a positive charge. Reduced in size they are blown upward again, rising less rapidly than the negative air and spray. Their charge makes them coalesce...
Born in Germany, Irma Duncan went with Isadora to Russia in 1920. They had had a telegram: "The Russian Government alone can understand you. Come to us: we will make your School.'' Irma helped with the school, stayed seven years. After Isadora's death she took to the U. S. a troupe of ten bewildered Soviet girls. The Soviet school still flourishes, the Dun can tradition is there more lively than anywhere else...
...thrice, finally voted 8-to-2. Dr. Guthrie was understood to agree with them that the clinic was not an essential feature of divine worship. He had lately collaborated in clinic affairs only to the extent of giving occasional religious talks which most of the patients could not understand...
...June 10 issue of the paper consisted of but one page with one brief paragraph on it, the story of Billy Moore's death, ending: "The entire valley is sick with sadness. . . . You will all understand why the regular edition of this paper is not being published this week...