Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there is no Jesus Christ in this either at the head or along the line," replied Senator Reed. "My friend has gone into Biblical matters, a question I did not understand he was at all familiar with...
...least two. The first of these rests upon the axiom that history repeats itself. Of course it never does, precisely, and yet in another sense it is always doing so, and the student of history discovers in the experience of the race data which alone can enable him to understand intelligently the environment of the present. The past in ninety-nine hundredths of the present anyway, and not to be interested in history a man must go into the seclusion of a hermit...
Senator Metcalf, a newcomer to the Senate, replied, abashed, nervous: "I did not understand I was violating any rule...
...imagine that trade and commerce with the United States are of some value to Italy, and I know that if she were threatened with deprivation of that commerce and of the right to borrow money of the United States, Italy would begin to understand that even an Italian Dictator cannot be also a dictator to America...
...begin to understand until the evening that some Buckinghamshire beech-leaves in a Moscow Road flower-shop smelled like the rustling wood to whose edge she had often come in her autumn imagination. She went at once to live alone at Great Mop in the Chilterns. There, after some months that were not without weirdness, a starved kitten scratched her hand and her own blood sealed her knowledge that she was a witch...