Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this point. This year there are several examples of men living in Dunster whose tutors are in Lowell, or vice versa. While this may be explained on the grounds that the mechanism of the House Plan cannot be geared perfectly in one year, it is more difficult to understand the case, in the draw of the upperclassmen last month, of many men who applied and were refused admittance to the Houses where their tutors will be in residence. If the man in good standing is not to be with his tutor, it is unfair to discriminate against the dropped Freshman...
...which radio experts and monsignori of his household skilled in diction are putting him. . . . Although the Pontiff will speak in Latin [over the radio Feb. 12] his advisers want his voice to carry over the air in such a manner as to thrill even the listeners who do not understand the words. The Pope has a clear, cultivated voice of rich timbre, but of moderate strength...
...days on milk and hard black bread I went back to my own place. The doctors were kids. I have never seen any place so dirty as that hospital. . . . How anything fine or good can come from such squalor and misery and defeat is more than I can understand...
...understand what the fight was about one must remember that all Japanese are supposed really and truly to believe that their Emperor is the "Son of Heaven," the lineal descendant of the Sun Goddess and himself genuinely divine. Whether they believe it or not, Japanese statesmen have to act as though they believed that the Emperor is all-wise, can no more do wrong than can Jehovah. This being so, Japanese who oppose the London Naval Treaty became absolutely boiling mad last week when Baron Shidehara in defending the Treaty said: "Well, do you suppose the Emperor would have signed...
...more established forms. In some cases it may be a false strength arising from crudeness or a bizarre quality. Final judgment cannot come yet. Twentieth century art has broken completely with tradition in certain directions and it has so bewildered critics that many have been completely unable to understand the new idioms...