Word: understand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...College men, no matter what their walks of life after graduation, will find it increasingly necessary to understand the political aspect of society, as well as the economic, during the coming years," said speaker Longworth...
...understand you, General, your opinion is this, that particularly in view of the bad quality of hard liquor that is now sold in this country, if beer, healthful beer, could be manufactured, a beer that is non-intoxicating in fact to the average person, and distributed by the Government under regulation, not allowed to be sold in saloons or public places, or drunk upon the premises, the people would take to the drinking of that sort of beverage instead of drinking the vile hard liquor that we now have, and that it would promote temperance and would...
That anyone who appreciates the moving picture genre will understand how moving picturesque is Brown seems obvious. The film version is not half so fair to the Radcliffe author an to the humorist who retouched the story for the screen. But perhaps it is fair enonugh. The Dramatic Club must now have its try. And if it succeeds as III as Metro-Goldwyn, one can only hope that organization return in short order to the garbled gibberish of Russia, Slovakia, and--as has been suggested--points east...
...whole administrative system of Soviet Russia is made difficult to understand by the deliberate care with which perfectly well understood relationships are disguised under new and strange names. Thus M. Rykov is not, literally speaking, "Premier" but "Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars," who perform exactly the function of ministers in an ordinary cabinet...
...understand me more for what I have not said than for what I have said. Only this language is possible in Fascist style...