Word: understand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have heard of this movement on the part of the undergraduates to bring radical speakers to the Harvard Union. I approve of it heartily, it is a most commendable sign of the awakening of liberal thought that must come in America. But I fail utterly to understand why it should be necessary. This attitude of the authorities in laying down an intellectual quarantine, seems to me childish, simply, childish...
...will readily understand that it is not now my intention to prejudge the issues which remain to be developed in this investigation. I recognize that you are entitled to a full and fair hearing. But as there is no way by which you can divest yourself of the interest you have personally in the investigation, I can see no way but for you to retire as Attorney General, and I am therefore compelled to request your resignation...
...care to reveal their names and the Committee did not press her. Indeed, when counsel for Attorney General Daugherty attempted to secure the men's names, the Committee upheld her silence. Questioning her in regard to her reluctance to mention their names, Senator Ashurst said: "Madam, if I understand your attitude, it has been that you are not a voluntary witness, and you do not care to and neither have you assumed such an attitude?" Miss Stinson: "I would like that to be made very clear. As far as I know, I am not given to fibbing...
...sporting fraternity was given to understand that Wills would box Firpo (Pampas Bull) in Jersey City on June 28 or July 5. If Firpo holds to his announced intention of retiring, Rickard is likely to select either Romero-Rojas the Chilean, or Spalla the Italian, or both, to take the Negro's blows. Unless the Negro is knocked out, Rickard will let him have at Dempsey in September...
...reasoning of a Bolshevik is beyond the understanding of healthy people and nations. Even before the war the Russians were eccentric. At one moment the Russian was the polished European, strongely under the influence of French civilization; and a moment later he was the suave, but savage Oriental from Central Asia. It was this constant struggle between the East and West whose outward manifestations made the Russian so difficult to understand...