Word: understandingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...came back and warned your passengers that the landing would be rough. You unlocked the door so that all could escape from the burning plane. . . . You did this when your hands were burned to the bone. You could hardly hold the key. I pray God for the knowledge to understand for what purpose He saved my life by sacrificing yours...
...Hall, in the last dark row beneath the overhanging balcony, a lonely Cincinnatian last week called to those seated in front of him: "If it wasn't for you folks, I'd be afraid way out here in the country." Heads turned. A voice came back: "I understand they hunt deer up here between Rows J and K." The answer was cut short by a hammering sound, hollow and staccato, like a hatchet assaulting an orange crate: The 21st Republican National Convention was gaveled to order...
...mere acquaintance: I hardly know the fellow, really.) My own family, I am happy to report, resembles the socially prominent families of the East in its loyalty to family traditions. As an instance, we wear nothing but Munsingwear garments next to the skin. Nothing else will do, you understand. Moreover, of late a new tradition has taken hold: we are becoming quite athletically inclined, and as a result have now used six bottles of Absorbine Jr. I have wondered, now and then, whether this is sufficient to constitute a full-fledged family tradition. By Minnesota standards? Perhaps. But by Yale...
...looked was made of a recently developed material called Polaroid, and the headlight lenses were backed by plates of the same stuff. Polaroid polarizes light. Reduced to simplest terms, polarization is a process of "combing out" a beam of light so that it vibrates in one plane only. Laymen understand polarization more readily if they imagine that a beam of light, vibrating in all directions, is a flight of straws blown along helter-skelter by the wind. If the straws collide with a picket fence, some will pass through if they happen to be aligned vertically with the gaps between...
Fear of the outbreaks becoming a general strike, attended by violence and suffering, seems temporarily abated, but self-restraint is never a long-enduring phenomenon of such disruptions of economic and political life. It is, therefore, easy to understand why Premier Blum has promised everything to the discontented. He may, perhaps, be acquitted of expediency, but there were but two courses open to him. One--repression--was unthinkable since he is a man of strict Socialist principles and depends almost entirely on Leftist support. The only other alternative, which he took, was an immediate guarantee that he would clear away...