Word: understands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Frankly, I do not understand British policy," said Benito Mussolini to his favorite U. S. Newshen Anne O'Hare McCormick in Rome recently. "Do you understand...
...tutor, of course, or a tutor who did not understand his duties, might use his power as a threat, make himself a "task-master", and make the system for his tutees "a sort of pedagogical nursery." But there is no reason to suppose this would happen, any more than it happens now with the not insignificant power of tutors in borderline cases...
...Lindbergh case, is highly significant. Of especial interest is the fact that, like Colonel Lindbergh, Condon has chosen to fade from the picture just as national excitement and feeling has reached a fever pitch over the impending execution of Hauptmann. In the case of the Lindbergh family one may understand their desire to wait until the whole affair has blown over before returning to the scene. Their presence here would but aggravate a situation already charged with hysteria and fanned to white heat by a yellow press. At best they could do no good, for it is inconceivable to think...
...vituperative epithets addressed by Judge Fowler, John W. Davis, et al., .to this innocent and useful phrase be directed instead to those bungling laymen and law makers who are unable to understand it and also (with emphasis) to those lawyers who have asked courts to interpret it in other than its true meaning and so have caused so much unjustified confusion. GEORGE E. McMuRRAY...
...second son after one feels the first has had 'the finger' put on him by undue publicity-unless one has had just a taste of Colonel Lindbergh's experience with a press that respects no law and knows no decency-it may not be possible to understand that this is a retreat after repeated defeats by unfair odds...