Word: understandables
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...regret the applause after each poem. The accumulation of your appeal was thus broken, yet it is through such lack of comprehension that we understand the awakening of our generation to, realizations unknown to those before us, much as the structure of their religion has failed...
...help civilization. We want to do it; we want that question disposed of now and not brought into our general election, because people cannot vote intelligently on a question, a document, of that kind. Not one person in a thousand has ever read the treaty and very few can understand it. Great pressure should be put upon the Senate and the President to pass this measure. It is not becoming in me to speak without respect of the President, but it is important to dispose of the treaty, and the President and Senate are the various means to do this...
...mean to say that this is considered a good drink? Frankly, I cannot understand its world-wide reputation.' Then looking at my sister, I saw that her face betrayed no enthusiasm, either...
...Finally we must make the laborer understand that he has an opportunity to improve his station. We must destroy the conviction now universally held by the laboring classes that 'hard work don't pay; it's only pull that gets the good jobs the only way to advance is to marry the boss's daughter...
...supply of the country has increased from about two billions to about three billions. We see that the Federal Reserve Notes have increased seven times and that the entire quantity of gold has been augumented by only fifty per cent, of its former supply. It is not difficult to understand that this stupendous increase in the volume of currency tends to decrease the market value of the money in the country, and that a greater amount of money is required, than formerly, to purchase a commodity of apparently equivalent value...