Word: understands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...candidate for Governor, come hell or high water. . . .' Matt McCloskey raced across the room, shook his fist under Guffey's nose. . . . Red with rage, Dave Lawrence, who the night before took himself out of the race, jumped into the free-for-all. . . . 'Now I understand,' he bellowed, 'why I didn't get the support for my candidacy from persons who . . . should have been in my corner...
...needed only the approval of the Senate and the signature of Franklin Roosevelt to make it the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 and the law of the land. This week, after three days of debate divided between assertions by various Senators .that they did not understand what they were voting for and contrary assertions that the bill had to be passed anyway, Majority Leader Barkley managed a roll call, got the bill passed...
...scientists now understand immunity to disease, 1) the blood develops substances which destroy certain germs and viruses that invade the body, or 2) body tissues develop resistance to agents of disease. Neither explanation covers the temporary immunity to infantile paralysis which distemper confers on monkeys. Dr. Dalldorf reasoned that "both viruses require, for their propagation, a common cell protein or other substance which the conjugation of the first virus exhausts and thereby prevents the multiplication of [the] other virus." If he and his associates are correct, they believe that they have discovered "a new immunity mechanism in the virus field...
Perhaps the selections from President Conant's report published in the Crimson were misleading, but I understand him to have said that enrollments should be cut because a growing percentage of university graduates are unemployed. I cannot see how that has anything to do with the problem. One might just as well say that we should abolish high schools because so many high school graduates are unemployed...
...blind-leaping drunk and spend too much dough and make a fool out of himself"). Inadequate for detailing such complex figures, as O'Rielly, this style works well in accounting for dumb, dangerous Bill Crockett, who develops from a cowboy to a highwayman, but can never understand why his companions grin knowingly or sigh wearily when he talks about all the women he has known and all the men he has killed...