Word: understandingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time has come," said he. "when the question must be met. I represent a group of states that desire Repeal. . . . All we ask is that you give the people a chance to come clear, to come clean, and not give them a plank that no one can understand. . . . We adopted the 18th Amendment to win the War. Let us repeal it to win the Depression...
Cathode Ray Tube Analyzer. To understand the manufacturing possibilities of some materials, x-ray spectra are useful. Analysts get the spectra by striking the material with cathode rays until x-rays flash off. If the material can be put in a vacuum tube the process is comparatively easy. Otherwise the cathode rays must be shot out of the vacuum tube through a very thin metal window into the open air, and then upon material to be examined. This is exceedingly difficult to accomplish. Air tends to dissipate and absorb cathode rays before they can strike x-rays from anything...
...What do you mean by 'my party'?" mimicked Herr Hitler, then shouted "I am the party, do you understand? I am the party...
...raddled skin and pendulous breasts, fops with snub noses and muskrat mouths, gaunt marble-jawed soldiers, starving children, slatternmouthed old shrews. All are made contemptible, rarely laughable. The pictures look like a child's scrawls, full of scratchy, distracting detail. But critics perceive the basis of sound craftsmanship, understand Grosz's potent European influence. Knowing that satirists usually resemble their favorite object of satire, pupils at the Art Students' League were wondering which of his figures Herr Grosz would resemble. The new teacher who appeared at the Art Students' League last week was a mild, fine...
...throwing the racketeer's corpse off the roof. When police find it on the sidewalk, they do not guess about the murder. He is rewarded not by the actress's devotion but by a mean trick such as real colyumists have given the public to understand is particularly likely to occur in Manhattan's theatre district. The actress marries someone else and the colyumist is forced to fall back upon the affections of a platonic friend who laughs at all his wisecracks (Ann Dvorak...