Word: understandables
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...course Pervus would not understand this. So she keeps her idea a secret. And then, when Dirk is aged ten, Pervus dies...
...play must have a story, and human nature, in order to be studied, must have situations to react upon; but in the last two acts there seems to be a lack of balance between comic situation and characterization, the latter being, we are given to understand, the main purpose of the Kentucky plays. The people tend to be obscured by the very plot which never fails to keep us laughing. And after the story is done, back we come in a short tag-ending to Beem's poetry of life, as if the author had suddenly remembered what the play...
...think of no better way to understand this curious break in the continuity of modern development than to compare these two novels...
...fact that he is the only army officer of his rank who has the privilege of wearing the insignia of a full-fledged filer. When over sixty years old he insisted on being taught to fly like any other airman, because, as he said, he wanted to experience and understand all the risks that his subordinates took. He has thus the record for age at the time-he "won his wings...
...which they intend to compete. The managing editor will outline the details of the news candidates' duties. The business manager will take the budding business candidates in hand. The photographic chairman will explain the manner in which the photographic competition will be conducted. He desires particularly that prospective candidates understand that neither experience in photography nor the possession of a camera is necessary. The editorial chairman will outline the duties to the Junior editorial writers, to whom this competition offers their last opportunity to make the CRIMSON...