Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...blue wisp like a hand, never reaching ever trying...."Created a book" she went on deftly. "And I am happy to have you all here to look at it, bless it. For you are wise men--and the book is mine. My husband, you see--my husband does not understand. He is not wise; he is only a husband. And he thinks that the book should be at least partly, his...It is not. It is mine, mine and God's." She extended the volume toward Thwait...
...until the first quarter of the fifteenth century that we see this style more or less consistently developed, this time in England. John Dunstable, much of whose work has recently come to light, had acquired a European reputation for his songs. For some reason difficult to understand, he was, however, very soon forgotten and became an almost legendary character sometimes called the "inventor" of counterpoint, and, most curious of all, even identified once or twice as St. Duston...
...secretaries stated that the University authorities had given them to understand that President Lowell had secured the cooperation of the corporation in planning a dining hall to be strictly operated upon the club table plan and to be located on the site of the old Catholic church on the northwest corner of Mt. Auburn and Holyoke Streets. The President is not interested in competing with Square restaurants, but in supplying what no private eating establishment can,--namely, club tables, where groups of men can eat together, being assured of the same table and their particular friends at every meal...
...that the dramas of Euripides seemed hardly golerable to the German romanticist. A. W. Schlegel. This is particularly interesting when one realizes that Euripides works contain within them the seeds of the movement of which Schlegel was to be the formulator and popularizer. In fact it is impossible to understand the reason for this strange opposition unless one understands at the same time the romantic conception of the Greek and Greek...
...difficult to understand how the Vare machine has gotten away with so much graft regularly for many years and remained unexposed. City machines in themselves are not necessarily bad. Tammany Hall is, on the whole, a good example of the efficient, reasonably clean type. The Vare machine on the other hand, appears to be the most flagrantly vicious in the country. One wonders what the Committee of Seventy in supposedly civic reform league organized several decades ago, has been doing all this time to justify its existence...