Word: understandingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...useless to editorialize at length upon the disputed problems of changing policies. No person, after being in Cambridge but a day or so, can understand its complicated terminology; the most that can be remembered is that Harvard today is not what it was yesterday, nor what it will be tomorrow...
Romance today in the college towns, we understand, isn't so demure and genteel. Perhaps this is because so many professors now live in apartments or have oil burners. But students who need part-time jobs are just as plentiful, perhaps even more plentiful right now. Probably there are several thousand young men and women in Greater Boston who must earn money to help pay their college expenses this coming winter. Almost any modern boy can drive an automobile well, and possibly you might use one of them as a chauffeur a few days a week. Girls are still mighty...
...radio) and New York's Governor Roosevelt (in person) last week when they both participated in a memorial service to Red Cross Founder Clara Barton at Dansville, N. Y. The President called the Red Cross ''a monument to individual and local initiative." The Governor said: "We understand today that disaster and catastrophe are not limited to suffering caused by fire and flood. If the teachings of Clara Barton were right, these same teachings must apply to the distress and suffering stalking in our midst today. . . . To this high aim we dedicate our functions of government, our towns...
Residence in the North caused me almost to despair of ever hoping for the Northern whites to understand the attitude of Southern whites toward Negroes. The unfortunate statement referred to tends, in my opinion, to further the misconception...
...Hoff has a conversation with a man who looks so much like Hoff he might be his brother. They go home, spend the evening together. The man turns out to be David Hertz, once a front-page figure when he was acquitted for the murder of his wife. They understand each other; Hertz almost confesses what he has done, Hoff what he is about...