Word: understandingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Although I have found it hard to memorize, as was necessary in college, I have the advantage of being able to see, understand and think about problems...
...Frank set the standard," concluded his author, "that I understand all true Yale men to this day have lived up to--not to drink, not to smoke, and never to swear...
...Behind trotted stooped but spry Henry Ford and Publicist William J. Cameron who usually speaks for Henry Ford and usually is at hand on those rare occasions when Mr. Ford speaks for himself. A throng of newsmen and Government clerks, idly curious during lunch hour, had been given to understand that Hosts Franklin & G. Hall Roosevelt and Federal Reserve Board Chairman Marriner S. Eccles would lunch with the Fords on the secluded terrace at the rear of the White House. But the party was shifted inside to the family dining room...
With M. P.s sitting silent as if stunned, Sir John explained: "The Government took the very unusual course of acting without first applying for statutory authority, in confidence that the House of Commons would understand our reasons and would, in due course, enable us to obtain legislation conferring the necessary powers" to pay for all this food. It has been bought by ostensibly private British syndicates whose members have confidence in Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, a businessman whose reputation for commercial integrity is second to none...
...commodity prices are at 50% of the 1924-26 norm (Dow-Jones). Index figures always seem a little theoretical. Last week, however, the public had plenty of opportunity to be impressed as dollars & cents first-quarter reports for many U. S. businesses put Depression in terms that anyone could understand. With the exception of a few fortunate industries, the figures were unanimous in showing that business has taken a tremendous beating in the first three months of 1938. Samples...