Word: understood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...science, through its treatment of the brain; will be a very high form of psychology. Dr. Carrel insisted, "It is obvious that the functions of the brain must be better understood in order that, without intellectual or moral deterioration the human race may stand the new conditions of life imposed on the individual by modern civilization...
...Carrel said, "Instead of merely in increasing the number of human beings, we could increase their quality. The progress of medicinal understood in this manner, would be the most important factor in the development of civilization...
Leora - Leora Tozer - was a probationer in the Zenith Hospital. She looked up from scrubbing a floor, grinned at self-important young "Dr." Arrowsmith; sassed him, understood him, made him her life. She was untidy, not brainy, not pretty. But her genius for living matched Arrowsmith's capacity for work...
...that country, of which oaths and abjurations, are no less important than sober garments instead of gaudy scarf's. The Italian wanderer from his dative health must also keep his hand in, by liberal excursions into doubtful proprieties of speech, or he will not be able to make himself understood when he gets back home...
...example, the motion picture censorship undertaken by the municipal Worcester Board of Review which is now to use Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, and members of the Worcester Boys' and Girls' Club as judges. Even the Boston American sees the absurdity of this movement, and gently pokes fun: "It is understood the theory is that if the morals of the boy and girl representatives of the organizations named are not blasted by the pictures, then it will be safe to show them to the rest of the children...