Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rotarians were especially puzzled by Count Keyserling since their official mottoes are "Service Above Self" and "He Profits Most Who Serves Best." For all who simply cannot understand philosophy, Count Keyserling has pap. Example: "America is ruled by women...
...hard to understand why such an actual problem of outstanding legal importance was chosen in the school where the case system was first developed for the teaching of law. The brilliant results that are now predicated with such methods are fully attested by the attention experienced lawyers give a straw trial argued by students in the Harvard Law School. Whatever may be the ever increasing allegations of the impracticality of the colleges, the methods of the graduate schools, and even more, the desire of leading firms to secure the alumni, make such charges against them impossible. And the fact that...
...English audiences are peculiar, though," Sir Thomas continued, "In New York the house was sold out every time I conducted, and I understand it's the same here in Boston. In London you may have a full house one day, but if the sun is shining the next, only a handful of people will make its appearance. People's decisions are prompted entirely by the weather," he concluded...
Nearly everybody recalls such letters in the native press; letters from missionaries, letters from soldiers; letters from tourists struggling to describe in words that the hometown will understand 77 wonders of another world. Occasionally they contain a real news story. John H. O'Connor's did. The inauguration* of construction work on the first Persian railroad, which will connect the capital, Teheran, with the Persian Gulf, is an event of which many internationally minded U. S. citizens are unwillingly ignorant...
...successfully pretend to possess a civilized intelligence. Claire Ambler, though beautiful, was not entirely stupid; the ego-centripetal activity of her mind was doubly painful because of the artificiality it first produced and then criticized. But the men who buzzed around her, like bees around a blossom, did not understand this unhappy virtue; they were content to adore Claire Ambler, forgetting in their own egotism, to value hers...