Word: understands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Took notice of the Rankin pension grab (see The Congress) with a little speech to officials of the Veterans of Foreign Wars: "I hope it will be possible for you to help me to help the veterans of this country understand that this United States is theirs . . . and there are certain limits to which its financial welfare cannot be stretched...
...like many other conductors ... I do not envy anyone success. If someone tells me there is a conductor who is superior to Mengelberg, I bow humbly." After a moment's thought, he added: "But whenever I hear that person's performance, I simply cannot understand what makes people think he might be better than...
Nakedness Regained. The leading authority on everything Polynesian, Sir Peter has lived in tiny islands where the ancient customs are still in use. Helped by his ancestry and knowledge of the Maori language, he has been able to study and understand them as no mere white man could. In general, he believes, Polynesians are better off if they do not stray too far from ancient ways. Stimulating desire for imported foods, for instance, might prove disastrous. Their traditional houses are perfect for the climate and the life they lead...
Voluntarily and involuntarily, a man swallows hundreds of times a day, but the process is one of the many which doctors only inadequately understand. This hiatus in medical learning became a pressing problem to three surgeons at the University of California Medical School; they had a patient whose swallowing mechanisms had been paralyzed by a gunshot wound. A .38-cal. bullet had hit the man near the nose, injuring some of the nerves that control the muscles of the throat. In Annals of Surgery, Drs. Howard C. Naff-ziger, Cooper Davis and H. Glenn Bell describe how they went about...
...unemployment and falling commodity prices mean a recession? Or would it be just a temporary letdown? Last week the committee called in economists, unionists, farm leaders and businessmen to find out. Among them was Economist A.D.H. Kaplan of the Brookings Institution, who had an economic explanation that everyone could understand...