Word: understands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Speaker, on Monday I spoke on the Omnibus Banking Bill. I understand that some Members of the other body feel that certain of my remarks reflected upon them. Of course, I was discussing issues and not personalities. In view of the understanding which certain Members on the other side have, I desire to say that I intended no reflection on the steadfast patriotism, the absolute integrity, and the high purpose of any Member of the United States Senate. On the actual issues involved, in the statement I made on Monday, I adhere absolutely to what I then said...
...Scouts, whom, but for a nearby epidemic of infantile paralysis, he would have been reviewing in Washington, he found time to say by radio: ''When you go out into life, you will come to understand that the individual in your community who always says "I can't' or 'I won't'-the individual who by inaction or opposition slows up honest, practical, far-seeing community effort-is the fellow who is holding back civilization and holding back the Constitution of the United States. . . . You are having opportunities to fall in love with...
...think both with law and medicine the public is entitled to know the essentials in lay language of any and of all new developments. All advances in medicine and surgery are experimental in nature until proven by time and experience and I think the more intelligent of our people understand this; certainly the class of people who read magazines such as TIME belong in this category...
...masculine exploits, she resented it when female reporters asked her silly questions about clothing and lunches, was puzzled when the radio announcer, describing the takeoff, deliberately lied about the way she was dressed. She worked hard learning to operate the radio. Baffled by technical explanations, she pretended to understand, thinking as she had in school, "I'll get it all explained to me after class." Confused and uncertain in the presence of radio experts, she was nevertheless gratified that her family looked impressed even when she told them, in technical language, of howling blunders she had committed...
...plane. "Hello," said the Eskimos, "we-hunt-duck." Taken aback, not knowing what manner of men his visitors were, Charles Lindbergh replied, "That's nice." Conversation lagged. To keep it going, he explained that he and his wife were just stopping for the night. The Eskimos did not understand. Still trying to make conversation, he asked, "Get many ducks?" Eskimos could not understand that either. "Well," Lindbergh said at last, "guess I'll go back to bed." He closed the hatch, stretched out on his parachute, fell fast asleep, while the puzzled Eskimos floated off into the inky...