Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...countrymen in the Rhineland, Catholic and Protestant, would not understand if our craving for deliverance from the state of oppression passed over in silence. We live under heavy burdens. Remember, we disarmed to live in an armed world. We wait for the promised general disarmament to be able to believe in peace. In the present condition of the League of Nations we can't find any religious character or any communion with the Kingdom...
Crime alone?the industry which, with meatpacking, is responsible for the wide reputation of his native city?he could not understand. When the report came to his paper of the bandits who raided the Drake hotel, (TIME, Aug. 10, NATIONAL AFFAIRS), he said: "Poor fellows...
...what has been." Then, pensively, she added: "It's a pity, isn't it, this parting of two whom Allah seemed to have brought together to work His will by a harmonious, happy association ? Ours was a love match even in the sense in which you understand the term in the West...
...seemed strikingly strange and most difficult to understand why manufacturers who are the beneficiaries of such a high protective tariff as those engaged in the textile manufacturing industry would be the first to attempt to impose a reduction in the wages of their workers. . . . Reduction in wages are not proposed and are not being forced upon the workers in other industries. . . . Existing economic facts make their position unjustifiable and indefensible. . . . How can the workers in the textile industry sustain a reduced purchasing power through the imposition of a substantial reduction in wages and at the same time maintain and enjoy...
Peace Treaties. The German Government professed itself unable to underStand the meaning which France desired to express with regard to the inviolability of the Peace Treaties. "The German Government considers as self-evident that it is not meant to exclude for all future time the possibility of adapting existing treaties at the proper time to changed circumstances by way of peaceful agreement." Meaning that Germany was still intent upon securing modification of her boundary with Poland...