Word: understand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prohibitory legislation and then leave it to the Government to carry out the reformers' ideas. . . . We go in strongly for 'noble experiments' and while I suppose that no one would pretend that we really want to be good, we are nevertheless anxious that the world should understand that we approve of goodness in others...
...your specific question," answered the Ambassador, more calmly, "I am frank to say that my handicap is 35. I play golf and I don't play it, if you understand what that means...
They hung a green flag with a green star in a white square in the Louis XVI room of Manhattan's Hotel Manger last week. About 150 delegates gathered there and chatted in a language which no bellboy, waiter, clerk could understand. The men wore green neckties, the women green enamel stars. It was the 22nd annual congress of the Esperanto Association of North America, the organization for fostering and teaching the "universal lan-guage" which "promises sacred peace...
...understanding of the patients that only one egg was allowed for breakfast . . . was justified, since only one egg per individual was placed upon the tables and the patients did not understand they might obtain another egg upon request...
Editor Barzini's editorial, unlike the rest of Corriere d'America, was printed in English so that all might understand. That did not prevent the non-tabloid, but tabloidesque, New York World from front-paging...