Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They could not keep Jules, doorman for M. Briand, from appearing in all his medals. Jules said "War is abominable, but the army ... is fine." Also spoke Jules, "This American, too, Mr. Kellogg. Perhaps he will get to understand France better, like the American Ambassador does, and will make jokes and laugh like Mr. Herrick does with M. Briand...
...understand . . . that the Governor [Alfred E. Smith] in casting those votes against those reform bills [touching gambling and the facilities for prostitution] might honestly have felt that the bills were unconstitutional or were not enforceable or infringed on personal liberty or encouraged police blackmail...
...funding World War debts to the U. S., which in broad principle is now in force. Three years ago he talked with President Coolidge on another variant for the funding. The President listened to the soft-spoken old man and sent him to Senator Smoot. The Senator let him understand that political demands in Congress must modify any pure economic treatment of the debts (TIME, July...
...vilest leeches sucking the blood of human society." 4) "Resolute avoidance of any increase in taxation." 5) "Introduction of the most crystalline simplicity and clarity in all state accounts, so that each citizen, without the aid of metaphysics of accounting or computing machines, can read them and understand them." 6) "Vigilant economy and inflexible refusal to authorize any economic enterprise not considered vital." Clearly the stringency of this Six Point Cycle means that // Duce will not stop short of so-called "Wartime measures" to ensure the fiscal recovery of Italy and prompt payment of her war debts. Ceaseless and ever...
...that "the young players were better off without Tilden bossing them around, anyway." Frenchmen, almost without exception, said that Tilden had been treated unfairly.*They had heard a rumor that Lacoste was going to write articles for American newspapers.† The Parisian mind could not bring itself to understand what writing had to do with tennis eligibility. Not since Lindbergh had Paris become so worked up over an American phenomenon...