Word: understand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...understand what happened in the Senate last week in regard to the disposal of Muscle Shoals, one has to arrange facts in a simplified manner. In the first place, there have been four chief proposals for the disposal of the Muscle Shoals property...
...well, I think. As an illustration of what I mean, take the recent discussions of the situation in Spain. Personally, I like what your editor said about King Alfonso and I have no doubt most of it can be substantiated as matter of fact, but I can very well understand how someone who takes the other side of the controversy might sincerely think that you were not stating facts but expressing editorial opinion. I merely suggest the danger which, of course, you have appreciated long ago, and trust that you will be as skillful in avoiding it in the future...
...will win, that is final. My presentation of the electoral bill, medidated upon for a long time, is the beginning, not the end, and it offers the party an opportunity of winning a great political battle-a political, not only an electoral battle, I ask you to understand...
...thing that Mr. Paine could understand least in the habits of some of the new writers was their ability to put things together in such a slapdash fashion. For him, it is necessary to gather material, to digest it, to think about the finished product as a whole. To write a biography is the work of several years, not of a few weeks. He works in the mornings, or walks, or plays pool with the Editor of St. Nicholas: he considers pool his exercise. His reading is done before he sleeps at night and early in the morning. Driving...
...portraits. That is, when I find those who know that a portrait is a painting. Sometimes it is hard to make them understand. They think there must be the kind of a mouth they have, or that the eyes must be exactly of such and such an expression. Then the whole family must get together and be glad about it. I don't paint that kind of a portrait...