Word: understands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meeting, weary men, wilted by the heat, discouraged by the bleak facts they carried in their minds, walked the corridors with troubled step. They wished they did not have to say what was on their minds, but they also hoped that everyone in the Western world would understand its importance...
Americans who remember 1933 could understand this. Then some banks were sound, some were busted and some were half-busted. Some half-busted banks reopened with the understanding that old accounts of depositors were still tied up, but deposits made after the reopening were fully usable. In the British situation, the 14 billion of sterling balances around the world (tied up like the old deposits in half-busted U.S. banks) are known as "accumulated sterling." Since the British have not nearly enough dollars to exchange for this "accumulated sterling," they had never promised to pay it off after the July...
...London Daily Express, the six-month trial run of Steve Canyon had been quite a trial. Steve had been a problem to the 3,870,000 readers of the Express, too. Milton Caniff's comic-strip airline operator was a likable enough chap, but how was one to understand him without a pony? Even to inveterate followers of the U.S. cinema, such terms as "leg it," "front boy," "Hood" and "gee" were hard to translate. Express editors, who have had to doctor much of the Canyon dialogue for British readers, were nonplussed by "Delta and I will...
...career as a teacher. For a long time he and his top musicians have trooped around the country to hold classes in the Waring technique, especially as it fits choral singing. Waring, who thinks his own chorus is the best on the air, complains that he "can't understand what any other chorus in radio is singing...
William Powell, with the help of a fiery wig, looks right as Father and Irene Dunne seems to understand Mother...