Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...After a critical comparison of the Soviet system with Capitalism in other countries," said Lawyer Patterson last week, "I am convinced that when the Negro masses of America come to understand more clearly the ideology of Communism they must accept it as the only genuine relief from their present plight...
...which I have a copy and, second, the children talk Welsh. As long as the children talk a language, that language is still a live one, not dead nor artificially fostered for patriotic reasons. If the situation is the same in northern Scotland and the Western Isles, as I understand it is, the University of Inverness will be well justified. W. N. Snell...
...cracks appallingly stale jokes-among them, the one about the girl who resents having her beauty compared to an old Rembrandt. In Act II, however, Comedienne Patsy Kelly capers through some coarse monkeyshines. Mr. Jolson sings a Yiddish folk song which is eminently successful and which anyone can understand, two spry and clever Negro dancers named Carol Chilton and Maceo Thomas appear. First night spectators, seeing Mr. Jolson's pretty wife Ruby Keeler in their midst, wished that she too would get up on the stage and help out the show with some of the tap-dancing she used...
Mechanic Paul F. Kassay, tall and blond, learned to like the new workman who had been placed alongside him in the great Goodyear-Zeppelin dirigible dock at Akron, Ohio. This newcomer was of Hungarian descent and could understand Kassay's native Magyar. He, too, had "certain ideas" about this business of the Navy's new dirigible, Akron, largest in the world, which they and hundreds of others were building. High on the catwalks, just under the dome of the dock (which is so enormous that rainfall sometimes occurs inside), was an excellent place to talk privately while innumerable rivets were...
...immediate than the above danger is the possibility that such a circular will antagonize those to whom it is addressed. To be told how perfect an institution is and then in the same breath to be asked to contribute to help is more than some will be able to understand. The average graduate cannot be expected to know that a university cannot be perfect. On the contrary his reaction to such words is to question the necessity of this additional drain on his pocketbook. In the vast amount of building at Harvard he sees a great affluence...