Word: understand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...picture entitled "Venus on the' half shell" aint half so hard t' understand, or t' look at either...
...glad they got in uh crack uhbout thet christmus tree on th' corner uv Tremont an' Boylstun Streets, better known ez James F Mahoney Square. Ef any uv these Harvard undergraduates understand whut th' thing is all uhbout--I mean th' Xmas tree signul--then there educatiun aint in vain...
...What we don't understand, is how it is possible for American industries to pay higher wages than we are paid and yet undersell us on the same product in the world market. It may be that it is your massed production and standardization against our old theory of good workmanship, based on the individual. That is what we have come...
...Nothing could ever separate them, they thought−but something did. It was an automobile. It struck Ruff while he was crossing the road, and after that the Airedale lay quite still and never again pawed with his leg or sniffed with his nose. Dick McDevitt did not understand what people meant when they said the dog was dead. Dead! A stupid word; but he repeated it to himself until it seemed to take on a meaning. His father † dug a hole in the ground, and asked Dick McDevitt if there was anything he wanted to say before they...
...success of Ossian is hard to understand today When the poems were first published their fame ran over all Europe. What still survives is interest in the dispute over their authorship, a question which has never been answered...