Word: understand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...National and International politics-also other news features I like your brevity. But I do not like the mystery in which you enshroud many of your news items. I wonder why you can't boil the news down in plain English-in language the average reader can understand. Why all the display of more or less profound scholarship...
This bagatelle, we understand, was not imposed upon the student for the trifling operation of towing the car two blocks. It was for the privilege of participating in the jest...
...Germany such a thing could never happen, and I cannot understand how the papers write such falsehoods", said Dr. Von Oy. "I do not come from Munich, but from Kiel. I don't wear diamonds, and far from being a coal and freight carrier, I came over as a guest of the captain...
...York World: "It has been a dirty campaign. That is certain. But if any one thinks that Messrs. Hearst and Hylan can be fought with a cool and dignified appeal to reason he has failed to understand their power and their methods...
...which increased between the two statements from $180,789,490 to $227,120,617. The "cash" item was also up from $251,173,583 to $265,723,525, but as goodwill, trademarks, receivables, etc., are lumped under this head, no one but Mr. Ford and his confidants exactly understand what the increase really means, "Securities" held advanced from $40,963,073 to $55,070,306 and "prepaid expenses" from $847,187 to $1,455,083, while "merchandise and supplies" varied only from...