Word: understands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yale, and he was very distressed and upset when I said I was going to Radcliffe (he wanted me to go to Smith or Vassar) you see, well, it's because going to Yale, you know, he doesn't think much of Harvard. You know, I mean you can understand that...
...Kremlin consider that they have conflicting vital interests. The Communists have always believed (and almost always said) that their mission is worldwide victory for their system; and that their own survival could not be assured in a world partly nonCommunist. Since the U.S. began to understand, about two years ago, that the Communists actually believed this, the U.S. has recognized its essential conflict with Russia...
Soble said yesterday he could not understand how the jury could find the men guilty of armed robbery. Early Wednesday night, court room opinion had it that the jury would not bring in such a verdict because it had asked Judge Goldberg whether a smoke-bomb used in the robbery was "a dangerous weapon." The Judge replied...
...inexplicable than the complete disappearance of the fraternity man . . . after his graduation from college. No managing editor was ever heard to say, even in a Hollywood film : 'Lead the paper with Himmelfarber's story-he's a Sigma Sigma from the Wingding School of Mines! I understand the Tau Taus were after him too.' And . . . who ever heard of a fraternity man, even with distress signals flying, beating out a son-in-law for a fat job in the family business...
...need to understand music," Villa-Lobos says. "You feel it." The music he feels is all the music of his own country. He grows angry when an unwary guest tells him that he sometimes sounds like a Brazilian Gershwin ("A child compared to me"), would be better pleased to be put on a par with Stravinsky ("Formidable!"). Actually, at his best, Villa-Lobos is like no one but himself. Says he: "I only ask that the maker of a piece of music be original. I do not care to walk in company with routine...