Word: understand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been suggested that young people do not understand all of the 'Strange Interlude'. Well, what they don't understand won't hurt them...
...TIME, Oct. 7, in mentioning the former Prime Minister of Austria, Monsignore Seipel, you had to use the words "crafty priest." As I know the gentleman personally, I cannot for the life of me understand on what you based your right to this insinuation. Perhaps it is due to the loose and superficial manner of many journalists when they approach anything pertaining to the old Church, utterly disregarding the ordinary obligations of man to man; it should be discarded...
When you take into consideration the fact that the team made this record under a coach who was serving his first year, then you begin to understand what the latent possibilities of the Peninsula state boys really are. The particular coach in question is a certain Mr. Charles Bachman of Notre Dame fame. Like so many others of his tribe he purports to teach Rockne football, but unlike a great many others of his tribe he really seems to do it. The report is that he has equipped his team with an offense of which the great Knute himself might...
...appeal to me after the stand he took in the Sacco-Vanzetti matter not long ago, and he with a lot of other theoretical high brows, Heywood Broun, for instance, always wanting some Red or Pink communist to be allowed to run loose, defame the government. . . . I cannot understand a man born and raised in a New England state like Vermont where there are no such things as radicals and Pinks and long haired agitators, upholding this sort of thing and I have no patience with such things. I was glad when even the N. Y. World, I think...
...explain to Board members what it meant, what their purposes were, but their words only added chaos to confusion. Last week Chairman Legge sought to increase the foreign "lookout posts" for U. S. agriculture from three to ten. He explained: "If we expect to expand our exports and understand our surpluses at home we must know conditions abroad." Proposed U. S. farm outposts: London, Berlin, Paris, Marseilles, Copenhagen, Bucharest, Buenos Aires, Melbourne, Johannesburg, Shanghai. Meanwhile, with the harvest almost over, the major situations confronting the Board last week were as follows: Wheat. A European buyers' strike made...