Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Permit me again to call your attention to the misuse of the word "Jew," in TIME which in the main is so carefully edited that such an error repeated is hard to understand...
...TIME of April 19, p. 38, col. 3, your book reviewer mentions "Jew manufacturers." I take it that he did not mean manufacturers of Jews but rather Jewish manufacturers. Is it so hard for men who understand English to realize that the word "Jew" is a noun and that "Jewish" is the adjective...
...begged Bishop Manning to allow her to remind him that only a few years ago he had refused to permit her name, the name of a divorcee, to appear in the yearbook of a charity home that she herself had founded in his diocese. "What I fail to understand," wrote Mrs. Belmont, "is, why this change on your part, dear Bishop. ... I am still a divorced woman...
...clubs, the Jews because they may not be athletes, the commutes because they may not add the local color that Brown gives to Harvard. The assumption is made by even Mr. Villard that the "assimilable" man is nothing but the "clubbable" man. That this betrays almost complete failure to understand the meaning of the Student Council report must be obvious. There is a curious confusion in the meanings of the word "social" which leads to a more pernicious confusion of thought. The argument for the new admission ruling on the grounds that it has a foundation in social efficacy...
Although the metropolitan press has in some instances read into the reports of the Officers and Committees of the Associated Harvard Clubs, issued as a supplement to the current issue of the Alumni Bulletin, various and sundry sensational meanings, there is no reason to understand these reports as other than same and satisfying commentaries on the activities of the University. For none can find any gross departure from the level of understanding and appreciative critical of existing conditions, criticism in which there is much of praise and little if any blame...