Word: understandables
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...understand that you are merely quoting what men have said but I do not care to even receive in my office or home a magazine that prints such statements. Therefore, discontinue my subscription and try to collect for what I have received...
...obvious, but forgiving, reference to the President's veto of the McNary-Haugen bill was found in a poem of welcome printed in the Rapid City Journal: We want you to know that we understand What you did you thought...
...disconsolate in a purple and cream silk dressing gown and red leather slippers. As everyone knows, M. Chaliapin's English is quaint. Correspondents reproduced it as follows: "I was born and always will be, a 'people's' artist. I sing for everyone. Politics, I understand nothing, absolutely. I never was what you call capitalist. I earn all my money; and everything I had in Russia was taken. "But Soviet Artists say now I give money to some White Guard people who are against Soviet. That isn't true. The story, it was simple-money...
...could doubt her perseverance in maintaining those heights, or in venturing beyond them. Those who do not understand a popular phrase concerning "indifference" need but read this latest benediction of Harvard upon American education. Harvard is "indifferent", indifferent to mediocrity...
...rather more important than psychology and coach, is the crew of eight oarsmen and a coxswain who will carry the Crimson colors at historic New London. The Harvard eight this year is pre-eminently worthy of confidence. The unusual size, strength and speed of its members we can understand, but there are other more intangible attributes suggested by the sporting experts by terms and phrases such as "flexible", "graceful", "minimum of effort", "smooth running" etc., which conveys an impression of something higher and finer than the mere drudgery of pulling an oar through the water...