Word: understood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...widely reported that only twelve persons in all the world understood Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity. Today the cosmic conclusions make sense to a somewhat larger audience, but the world at large still has no better understanding of Einstein or his towering contributions to science. Last week Einstein came down from outer space with a new theory which was easy enough to understand but difficult for many U.S. citizens to accept...
Citation: "Son of the industrial Midwest, who began to practice the gospel of brotherly love in the crowded playgrounds of a vast metropolis, who carried it on to the busy marts of trade and to the worker's bench ... A born leader of men, Martin Durkin understood his fellow men and he loved them...
...Boston's Mrs. Thomas Bailey Aldrich was "the only person in existence who had seen Harriet Beecher Stowe drunk" It happened when youthful, innocent Hostess Aldrich decided to impart a higher tone to her claret cup by adding the contents of a curiously shaped bottle which she understood came from a Carthusian monastery." The day was warm, and after downing two tumblers of the brew, Visitor Stowe had the illusion that she had become a sailor. Her "berth" (the sofa), she complained, was "going up and down" so tempestuously that she had difficulty in climbing into it. Her last...
...understood that the corporation takes the view that temporary shelter or roofing is unfeasible, and that improvements on the rink must be permanent. So that the plans may be completed, the additional funds must be gained by July 1. The committee has earlier gifts of some $25,000 by Bright and over $1000 by John P. Chase '28, former hockey coach, as starters...
...Cardinals and pastoral leader of Rome's 500 churches, exhorted his people: "Vote well, vote as Catholics, vote as Romans." In an address at the annual dinner of the American Chamber of Commerce in Milan, newly arrived U.S. Ambassador Clare Boothe Luce made sure that every Italian voter understood where the U.S., which has given Italy $3 billion in aid since war's end, takes its stand. After speaking of past U.S. help to Italy, the ambassador added: "But if-I am required in all honesty to say this-but if . . . the Italian people should fall unhappy victims...