Word: understand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When you spoke the other night, I was filled with admiration at your returning to the active struggle of political life despite your 80 years. But I did not understand your words, which seemed indistinct and far away...
...West cannot deny it. Today in Japan there is taking place a tremendous conflict or social forces which should be studied with great care by Americans. If your nation and mine are to play the lead in international affairs, in years to come, we must make an effort to understand each other, to thrash out our common problems. The Japanese are passionately desirous of becoming acquainted with America and Americans. Witness the number of students we are sending...
...credit of Mr. Godfrey that he did not fall into the evil ways of most antiquarians but kept the old masterpiece so free from all modern renovations that the young bloods who go to see it this week will understand why it played to record houses for 1400 consecutive nights, a run which far outstripped the present gold mine, "Abbie's Irish Rose...
...fact. . . . Intoxicating liquor is liquor which contains such a proportion of alcohol that it will produce intoxication when imbibed in such quantities as it is practically possible for a man to drink. . . . Perhaps I might interpolate here that the intoxication in this law means what you and I ordinarily understand as average human beings by the word 'drunkenness...
...strangers, who have spent years in preparation to stake their reputations on the swing of a blade, should do the same? And the biting incident ended amicably. I believe, through the coolheadednes of a French referee. There are times when every athlete. revering to type-and no one can understand the experience so well as mother athlete himself; which is why I insist that too much emphasis has been laid on such reversions by the men-athletic audience...