Word: understood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shoulder-borne chair (they disappeared before the apostolic benediction). And for the first time women's fashions received smiles rather than censure from the Vatican. In receiving some 200 designers, models, salesgirls and seamstresses of Rome's top high-fashion house, Fontana, Pius XII talked a language understood from Rome's Via Condotti to Manhattan's Fifth Avenue in commenting on one of Fontana's sidelines (making austere black dresses for foreigners to wear at papal audiences). "We are glad," said the Pope, "that we, too, bring you some work...
...giant's muscles are the 4,000 U.P. staffers who keep its hundreds of news printers thumping out 60 words a minute, in 45 languages, around the clock. Their copy must be crisply written to escape the editor's spike. It must be simple enough to be understood by "the milkman in Omaha,"* as an old dictum from New York once put it; at the same time, as former U.President Hugh Baillie once demanded, it is supposed to "flame like a candelabra on a dark and muddy battlefield." Between the milkman and the candelabra...
Trouble is that nothing conclusive connects the germ with the disease. (A dozen better-understood diseases have been attributed to microbes that were later proved not guilty.) If MS is laid to infection, it becomes almost impossible to explain why it so rarely attacks both husband and wife, or both of identical twins. Said the National Multiple Sclerosis Society guardedly: now that Bacteriologist Ichelson has published her long-awaited method for cultivating the spirochetes, other scientists can check whether they are really found only in MS victims. If so, an effective treatment might still be years away...
Very often, he noticed, this simply implied that he should have read and "understood" the right books, and understanding consisted exclusively of what he could articulate, which was usually what he least cared about...
...level of the student continues to rise, the professor will find his lectures are being better understood, and thus the students will find more areas untouched, more questions unanswered, and more loopholes...