Word: understood
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Officials want it understood that any "living quarters" which may be provided for ladies at the Commonwealth and Massachusetts Avenue quarters will consist solely of a private downstairs dining room and several rest rooms for the wives of the Alumni...
Daladier was understood to have told the American President's emissary...
...appraisal of talented Dan Wickenden it is instructive to recall another book by and about another young man; James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (see p. 86). Joyce could never have written Walk Like a Mortal: even as a young man, he understood too much to set it down easily...
...understood that no student in the University except members of the Crimson staff will be summoned as a witness unless he voluntarily signifies his willingness to offer his testimony. Harold A. Wolff...
...more important that California deputies kill strikers than that Tom Joad is a killer before the picture begins, kills again before it ends. It is equally unimportant that the Preacher, who has never understood religion, becomes an agitator, or that Tom Joad becomes a fugitive from justice. Ma is the important thing in The Grapes of Wrath, for Ma begins as one thing, ends as another. A bewildered, homeless, heartbroken woman when the picture opens, at its close she is an immovable force, holding the crumbling family together against things she does not even understand, against agitators as well...