Word: understood
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...patriots carry them out voluntarily. Boasted Baruch: "Not one [industry] had to be coerced." Said Wilson: "The highest and best form of efficiency is the spontaneous cooperation of a free people." But a different tribute to the Board came from Hindenburg: ". . . A ruthless autocracy was at work. They understood...
...tragic one for America, that so many college students do not identify themselves vitally with the issues now at stake in France and Flanders. For them--and for all those whose preoccupation is with the balance of sacrifice and benefits returned--the words of Andre Chenier cannot be understood...
...hour Paris radio broadcast bulletins, but there was little news beside the fact that in the crisis the Government had at long last achieved a "Union Sacree" of all parties by adding to the Cabinet Professor Louis Marin and Conservative Leader Jean Ybarnegaray from the extreme Right. Everyone who understood English tuned in the British Broadcasting Corp. Disturbing to many of the French was the BBC announcement that Winston Churchill had been made Prime Minister. In Paris his reputation is for recklessness. The French remember that in World War I the ghastly risks and losses of Gallipoli were his responsibility...
...genuine and what is not. This may lead one to believe that Raphael for example, never produced a poorly executed painting, or that Constable never failed to gain his desired effect, or again, that Corot was always successful in the creation of his shimmering landscapes. It should be understood that even the greatest artists must, at some time, have produced paintings which were badly done and which consequently stand a chance of being mistakenly branded as counterfeit...
Various boys' "gangs" who were approached about the project offered hearty support, and it was understood that they would help in working out the plans for the playground, which was to include a baseball field, volleyball and basketball courts, and horseshoe pits...