Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...understand how men can allow their wives and daughters...
...Statements like, "Evolution is a slow and gradual process," and "It must be remembered that the upright position of man is an acquired position," were simply left out. Upright Texas believers may now trust their children abroad in the fearsome school world. Intelligent Texans, the theory has it, will understand the diplomatic Fergusons' little gesture and explain to their children what "development" really means...
...United States senate, they are mostly conservative and the few liberals in the senate are, almost without exception, estranged from the church. It would be a happy experience for the nation to have a sound Christian radical of Governor Sweet's type in the senate. We understand that Judge Florence Allen is also running for the senate in Ohio, She incarnates the same type of Christian idealism as Governor Sweet. It would be cause for rejoicing if two such church members could have the opportunity of teaching America what Christian idealism at its best implies...
...they understand the beauty of our city Who are not connoisseurs of loveliness? For it is not the beauty of gay lights; Nor of swift moving crowds; nor quick young laughter ; Nor of shop-thronged streets; nor the sharp hard clink of money Passing from fist to fist. Rather it is the beauty Of an old, old woman in a black mantilla; Of an old, old woman with unutterable wisdom Behind her wordless reticence; who lights a candle In token of prayer before a faded picture of the Madonna. Or it is humble beauty- A flock of goats tumbling down...
...people of the United States know nothing of what has been going on in Arica. They do not understand the question. This is, in part, due to the secret negotiations which Secretary of State Kellogg has been carrying on in Washington, only releasing what he thought suitable to the press...