Word: understandables
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...considerably surprised when my attention was called to the title page of your magazine of March 24. In other words, I do not understand why the title page of a magazine intended for boys and girls of high school age should be graced by the likeness of Alphonso Capone...
...unfortunate results which have attended this policy during the last few years. It has been difficult, in fact well nigh impossible, to secure from year to year plays of merit which are not beyond the powers of the Club to present or beyond the powers of the audience to understand...
...united Germany above home, party, creed, etc." The phrase does not mean, never did mean "Germany above every other nation." Wrote Author Ponsonby, M. P., in Falsehood in Wartime: "There must have been many people who knew sufficient German to understand the meaning of the phrase but no protest was made at the mistranslation which was habitually used to illustrate Germany's aggressive imperialist ambitions...
...though someone else were making them ("observation with non-identification"). The dances were valuable in promoting the objective study of one's own movements. This regimen was part of an attempt to attain complete self-consciousness?chemical, physical, psychological awareness-of-self. Achieving this, a man might properly understand himself as part of his environment, might develop will, avoid being machine-like in a machine...
...kind letter came this morning. My emotion, were I able to be present at the presentation of my portrait, would be embarrassing. But, fortunately, for my composure, I cannot leave Washington. I feel very deeply the great honor that you do me. To have the picture placed where I understand it is to be, in your magnificent hall--worthy of the noble corps of professors and instructors who teach there--seems to mark the culmination of my life and leaves me ready to say, 'Now lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace...