Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...understand that the Soviet representatives are still in London...
...Premier Sir James Craig of Northern Ireland was forecast by political observers, but such an event seems hardly likely to help matters. The Manchester Guardian, one of the few British journals that has shown any perspicacity and common sense in commenting upon Irish affairs, said editorially: "We do not understand that there is any serious idea among British jurists that the treaty could be invalidated or thus any of its provisions legally frustrated by an act of disloyalty to the Imperial Parliament on Ulster's part. No citizen can repeal a law 'distasteful to him by disobeying...
...election in the City of New York, with all the newspapers against him, a gentleman was elected Mayor, and that shows the influence of these papers with the public. If they would get in touch with human nature and understand the ordinary people, instead of being always bowing to wealth, I think they would gain very much for their editorial policies. As I said before, I compliment the men in the gallery here who do give the news correctly, which appears in The New York Times correctly...
Concluding, the note said: "In any event, the present situation, which is the source of constant difficulty, cannot be allowed to continue and the Allied Governments depend on the German Government to understand it is for the general interest for it to make an immediate favorable decision. They, therefore, expect the German Government will notify them as soon as possible, and in any case before June 30, that it accepts the proposition made in the present note concerning general inspection and the consequent limitation of control to five classes...
...learned how to find the North Pole with or without a compass and how to crack rocks which should prove valuable if I ever get lost in the Arctic Ocean or go to jail. A Scout Club could go further and teach men semaphore so that they could understand what the little man in the bright red sweater does during football games...