Word: understands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their next session." The present vacancy did not "happen" (in the sense of "occur") during a recess of the Senate but it will "happen" (in the sense of "happen to exist") during a recess if the President waits until after Congress adjourns. Franklin Roosevelt gave the press to understand that his Attorney General espoused the latter view, but gave no hint of his intended action, thus once more enjoying his year-round sport of keeping the press guessing...
This blunt admission, distressingly crude, had its elegant Japanese counterpart in a speech to the Diet last week by Premier Prince Konoye. "I think there are many persons in the Chinese Government who understand Japan, including General Chiang Kai-shek," purred the Premier. "I think it should be the basic keynote of Japan's China policy to make the Chinese race and the Chinese Government return to their original nature as an Oriental people." After explaining that Communism is un-Oriental. while tactfully omitting to mention that the Chinese Communists have now tentatively joined forces with the Chinese Government...
...talkies fail to print subtitles throughout the films. Hence deaf-mutes who dislike reading lips cannot understand all of the action...
...subscribe. Instead of using his own magazines to present his Plan, and thus risk offending the profession, Dr. Ryan used the Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology, issued last week. To implement his Plan he required a chart of the human mouth which all dentists in the U. S. might understand. None of the 38 dental schools of this country had such a chart. So Dr. Ryan designed his own. On a grey background the 32 teeth are shown 1) as they look from the front, with their roots outlined, 2) as they look from the inside of the mouth...
...Candid General Hayashi has even said that he could not himself understand parts of speech written for him when he was Premier. (TIME...