Word: understandingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...news but a species of romantic fiction which they can get much better out of the movies and the magazines. . . . "As time goes on, therefore, one of two things happens to the popular commercial press. If its owners lack foresight and energy . . . the newspaper gradually fails. If ... they understand the nature of the process I am describing, they gradually transform the paper itself making it more and more sober, less and less sensational, increasingly reliable and comprehensive...
...present there is a confusion in the relations between the two. The public schools talk about wishing to send their boys into business: business men talk about wishing to get public school boys on their staff. Yet the numbers increase slowly for the two do not understand each other...
Description. Victims of sick headaches make nuisances of themselves. But their misery is real and acute. Vexed intimates can understand that misery only with difficult sympathy...
...unspeakably cruel! I don't understand it at all. If I hadn't seen with my own eyes these poor wretched people standing on street corners with a sign? a label mind you?reading 'UNEMPLOYED,' I would not have believed it of this wonderful country. . . . There is comfort in the thought that others are suffering with you?even in a breadline. But there is not one grain of solace in selling apples...
...realization that American methods have not yet attained a satisfactory degree of perfection, educators are constantly striving to improve native processes and standards. All plans are worth the attempt, but emphasis should not be placed on those that are for the most part peripheral. To imbibe and understand foreign manners and customs a protracted residence abroad is essential, for the merely casual intercourse with the scattered cross-sections to be found in this country results in a superficial knowledge at best. However, if the fundamental elements of improved instruction and student concentration are stressed the finished product of American Institutions...