Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After reading thru his communication and noticing that he hails from "Bahston," I could better understand his bursting into print...
Prize to those who understand...
...Diuguid. For palindromes, like Mary's lamb, followed him where'er he went, and since his only fortune was a modest undertaking business, this was not far. The only women who ever meant anything in his life were named Anna, Meem, and Hannah. It is therefore easy to understand why Mr. Diuguid early gave up the fight, embraced his cross, and began actually to look for palindromes. His residence and office addresses were both number 616, his telephone 111 and 333, his lodge membership card 313, and his motor license...
While most subjects may be read and understood at least in part, so that any student is able to carry on independent study, mathematics is a subject in which the failure to understand one point may make further progress imposible. For this reason even the graduate students to whom the privileges of the Reading Period will be extended may have access to their tutors when unable to grasp a point which is essential to a continuance of their work...
...that took, among other things, the form of selling the furniture and buying clothes at second-hand sales. Mrs. Elliot would push herself up in bed and stare at the pale, frightened child. "She clutched her granddaughter's wrist and shook her arm 'Don't you understand? You must resist her. . . . Why, if I were your age, knowing her as I do, knowing that she never had a grain of good in her . . . do you know what I would do?' She saw the apprehension in Emily's face and stopped...