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Word: understandable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...understand well last week's chief news of cigarets & cigaret counters it is necessary to recall these facts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Cigarets | 8/1/1927 | See Source »

...unseen multitude surrounds Dr. Barclay approaching Point Sur?his disciples; minds at any distance aware of his power. The women at Point Sur,?even Maruca, the squat half-breed whom he uses as deliverance from a 15-year chastity?vaguely understand his announcements: "God thinks through action .... Nothing you can do is wicked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: VERSE | 8/1/1927 | See Source »

...week, stopped at the Waldorf-Astoria, continued to announce that he would be back in Manila by September. He said that President Coolidge was "a great President," that the Filipinos were the "happiest people on earth" and that though most of them undoubtedly wanted independence, they really did not understand what independence would mean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Cavalry Cabinet Out? | 7/11/1927 | See Source »

...understand that you are merely quoting what men have said but I do not care to even receive in my office or home a magazine that prints such statements. Therefore, discontinue my subscription and try to collect for what I have received...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 4, 1927 | 7/4/1927 | See Source »

...disconsolate in a purple and cream silk dressing gown and red leather slippers. As everyone knows, M. Chaliapin's English is quaint. Correspondents reproduced it as follows: "I was born and always will be, a 'people's' artist. I sing for everyone. Politics, I understand nothing, absolutely. I never was what you call capitalist. I earn all my money; and everything I had in Russia was taken. "But Soviet Artists say now I give money to some White Guard people who are against Soviet. That isn't true. The story, it was simple-money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Challapin Distressed | 6/27/1927 | See Source »

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