Word: understandables
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...When any scholar is able to understand Tully, or such like classical Latine author extempore, and make and speak true Latine verse and prose, suo et aiunt Marti; and decline perfectly the paradignes of nounes and berbes in the Greek Tongue: let him then, and not before, be capable of admission into the College...
...work of candidates for the Dramatic Club corresponds to that done by the various managers of a professional company. The heads of the various departments will outline definitely the work that their candidates will undertake, so that anyone wishing to enter a competition will understand what he will be expected...
...Marquess of Salisbury: "A finger has been wagged in my direction. I fail to understand this movement. Was it admonitory...
...Standard Oil Co. of Indiana are the work of a burly lawyer-Colonel Robert Wright Stewart, chairman of the board of directors. He did not rise from the bottom. He broke in at the middle and puffed out the chest of the Indiana oilcan. Babbitts could not understand how he did it. He had played football at Coe College (Iowa), plunged into the law at Yale, cavorted with Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders, dabbled in politics in South Dakota. But he was and is a shrewd lawyer. The Standard Oil wanted him. Soon the general counsel was made chairman...
...audiences composed chiefly of bibulous automobile makers, our show was a flop. They just couldn't see it. I like to watch the people who are watching my shows and it is interesting to notice their reactions. Here, in Boston, now, in contrast to Detroit, the audiences seem to understand the show, and though it doesn't call for a brilliant mind to follow out show, we presuppose a certain amount of sophistication, intelligence, and education on the part of the people who come to see and hear our revue...