Word: understandingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...laboratory. He drank first about a wineglassful of water and then poured down his throat the nitric acid (our own students on all sides of him) and then washed it down with another wineglassful of water. This was pure nitric acid, and anyone who knows what that is will understand what that means. I wonder whether any of the various gentlemen who have written to you would like to repeat this nitric acid "trick" in the science laboratory of any university before the professors...
...American and British episodes of depreciation which include a discussion of the New Deal are a vindication of the monetary policies of the Roosevelt and Mac-Donald-Baldwin regimes. That the American officials frequently chose weapons that were not too effective and the use of which they did not understand does not matter so much as the fact that they moved in the right direction...
...minister, he was already so tall (6 ft. 3 in.) that the primitive flying machines of that period could scarcely hold him. When he made his first flight in a Maurice Farman "Longhorn," with his doubled-up knees interfering with the "handlebars" that worked the ailerons, he could understand why the War Office had almost turned him down at first glance. For the airplanes at that stage of the War -the Avros, Moranes, Bristol Bullets, DH 4's-were designed with little thought for the comfort or convenience of the men who flew them. Like the prehistoric pterodactyl, which...
...Delhi last spring with the especial confidence of Britons. Here was no glittering snob of a Lord Curzon, no "friend" of Mahatma Gandhi like Lord Halifax, and above all no amateur who would have to study India from tne isolation of his golden Throne and might begin to understand it just as his five years as Viceroy were up, a misfortune which has more than once occurred...
...never believed -that he would be a Father to them: "God has indeed been good to me, for he has given me five children. They came into the world each one with a nature and with characteristics different from their brothers and sisters. I have tried my utmost to understand those differences and to deal with each one of my children in a fashion appropriate to his or her nature; to give support where support has seemed to me to be needed, and in each to cultivate natural gifts and good qualities. I have sought, too, to encourage them...