Word: understood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More than a dozen such cases have been reported, writes Britain's famed Neurologist Macdonald Critchley in the Annals of Internal Medicine, and the more closely they are studied, the less they are understood. Some outstanding examples...
...were not disclosed yesterday, but members of the Faculty had said earlier that he was objected to for being a "poor teacher," and they alleged particularly a failure to hold the confidence of players and other students. Incidents involving criticism of officials and of University admissions policies were also understood to be factors in the decision...
...Special Quality. Hungarians are not very good plotters. The art of conspiracy?so well understood, practiced and detected by the Russians?would have been self-defeating in their struggle. What the Hungarians, a people of a special heritage and a unique language, did have was an overpowering common impulse, spirit or emotion, which suddenly united all classes against their enemy without the necessity of planning or leadership. The emotion had its origin in shared sufferings under the Russian police state, but it was made strong and enduring because it was tempered by that impracticable and, in Marxist terms, most despised...
...understood that the Faculty Committee on Athletics took up the question of Jordan's continuance at its first meeting after Bolles returned from the Olympics in early December, Jordan was informed of its decision by Bolles on Monday, December 31, though the recommendation had probably been agreed on more than a week before that. The story reached the Boston papers on Wednesday, and the "leak" has been attributed to Jordan by some...
...that in the Arab countries, Britain and France are currently so discredited that only the U.S. can save positions essential to all of them (a quite different thesis from the angry Tory backbench contention that U.S. interests are trying to drive the British out of the Middle East). They understood that the alliance stands as firm as ever in the geographical limits of its primary purpose-the defense of Europe-and that Britain remains the U.S.'s closest friend by blood, interests and sentiment. This fact was underlined last week when the U.S.Export-Import Bank granted Britain...