Word: understandingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minded today as we were at one time prejudiced and skeptical,--so that it is more rare to hear the public express a reasonable doubt when facing new mystifications, than it is to hear such young ladies who say, "I am sure this must be fine. I don't understand it, but it is so modern." To be catholic is admirable. Let us not be over credulous...
Like dogs whipped for something they did not understand, 60 kinky-haired Wakamba tribesmen huddled on the floor of the Nairobi Railway Institute fortnight ago and gazed hopefully at the judge sitting behind a deal table on the stage. The Railway Institute can be used as a theatre. It has an orchestra pit, folding chairs and well-equipped fly gallery. Seldom had the professional hunters, coffee growers and tradesmen who crowded the back of the hall witnessed such a drama...
...difficult for the News to present any worthwhile opinion on the subject of the Faculty. Yale is too large and too intricate for any group of undergraduates to understand. It would be too stupendous a task to discover the whys and the wherefores of the program. Suffice if to say, undergraduate Yale is not exactly satisfied that the buildings do seem better than the teaching. The Faculty is one of the most able in the country, but it is just plain too small. So far our opinion is valid: further we are disinclined to venture...
Principles. If the average citizen does not understand the principles of the International Style in architecture the fault is not with its innovators. France's Le Corbusier, most vocal of the lot, has expressed it in a single sentence: "The modern house is a machine to live...
...public there was none. The public would not understand. Without question the most important case since the indictment of Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone, which the public understood very well, this involved the most complicated, jumbled, uncertain set of legal volumes in the U. S.: The Anti-Trust laws...