Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...those who have been graduated during the period from 1880 to 1892, the almost complete loss of prestige in athletics gained by Harvard over Yale from 1868 to 1879 makes it all the more difficult for those whose four years in Cambridge fell within the earlier period to understand what has brought about this change. Although an annual boat-race between the two Universaries was inaugurated in 1852, and kept up spasmodically until 1864, when the annual race became an athletic fixture, it was not until 1868, when Baseball was added, that general interest was aroused. In the fall...
...intends going. A young debutante has just written a play. The play is called "As He Thinketh." Delightfully complicating, these plays within plays. All the cats wonder how she could have written it. But since she wrote it while recovering from a nervous breakdown, the audience is given to understand that that explains everything, for anything may happen in a nervous breakdown. Then, when the author has firmly established the nervous breakdown, the successful play, the handsome young nerve specialist, and the thoughtless young lady, in stalks mental telepathy. It comes in in the person of the mother of young...
Shrewd Douglas H. Cooke made calf's eyes in an interview. Said he: "I believe we handled the subjects in a way to rob them of all suggestiveness. . . . I am at a loss to understand the objections...
...understand it," Mr. Pennypacker told a CRIMSON reporter last night, "the attitude of the Committee was that a graduate should be appointed coach only if he was better than anyone else that could be secured. If we can find a coach who is better than any graduate, we would take him. The report says that the Committee would 'like' to restrict all coaches to graduates, but should the Committee be able to find a non-graduate who was eminently suited to the job, it would have to forego its liking and secure the better...
...make real the issues which were involved and which, in themselves, indicate the greatest difference between the spirit of that age and this. Likewise, when one reads of the conflict now going on at Yale for the abolition of compulsory attendance at chapel, it taxes the imagination to understand how such a thing can be possible in a community which everybody believes is more enlightened than that, say, of Dayton, Tennessee...