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Word: understands (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cannot understand why Harvard has betrayed the trust the American people have placed in it. If its so-called 'liberal' policy contines, it will lose its prestige;-it will slowly become a Red university...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: V. F. W. Leader Censures Hicks Choice; J. Saltonstall Approves | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

...luncheon given by Mayor Burnet Maybank, Mr. Garner made news by opening the closet and displaying the current Democratic family skeleton. Referring to a "misunderstanding between me and my boss" (by whom he meant President Roosevelt) he said: "I sometimes do not agree with my wife. You can understand. . . . But that does not take away my love and affection for this lady...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Azaleas | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

...amino acids (protein structural units), 18 of which are different, the number of possible molecular arrangements is about 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. Young Dr. White made the point that the mystery of protein structure must be cleared up before scientists can understand how the hormones exert their obscure, powerful control on living processes. The chemists applauded his paper heartily and he was awarded the $1,000 Eli Lilly & Co. prize for meritorious biochemical research...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Prolactin | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

Each year it has been the policy of the Crimson to indulge in an investigation of some major aspect of Harvard University, and from the facts to put forward constructive criticism. In making a study of the Freshman class, we have tried to understand, from the student point of view, not only the relations between the Freshman program and the other parts of Harvard's system, but also the relation between the University's general policy and modern education...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EDUCATION IN THE YARD | 4/26/1938 | See Source »

...dialectic theology." God's speech, or the Word, looms large for Karl Earth. He believes in an invisible rather than a visible, institutional Church, and for him this Church is the custodian of a revealed, written or preached Word. Earth is not a Fundamentalist as U. S. divines understand Fundamentalism. Barthians accept modern Biblican criticism freely. To them the Word is something apprehended in man's conscience, often understood in spite of, rather than because of, the interpretations of preachers and theologians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Barth in England | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

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