Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tide has turned, away from the Democrats and in favor of the Republicans." It was one of the first such gleams in months. Along with gloom at New Deal doings, there has lately crept into his dispatches a note of despair at his own inability to make citizens understand their peril. "No amount of explanation seems able to make the country see. . . ." he writes. And: "I am not sure that enough of the public can be brought to see the deeper implications...
...Physiologists, especially those interested in the nervous system," read Dr. Henderson's proxy, "understand fully that posture, particularly the ability to stand erect, or to hold up one's head, is dependent upon tonus. It is not, however, sufficiently emphasized, or even generally realized, that when a patient is too weak to stand or even to hold up his head, his condition is generally one of extremely low tonus...
...Great War a more sinister moment than now? So, if there is a 'lull,' it must mean that this Government has given guarantee: The Foreign Secretary shakes his head but if he says that no guarantees have been given by the Government to Italy, then I cannot understand what the Prime Minister meant by his amazing reference to 'the lull.'" Since for electioneering purposes His Majesty's Government must keep backstairs dealing with Dictator Mussolini on the back stairs until after Nov. 14. Mr. Lloyd George got no satisfaction last week. He taxed Foreign Secretary...
Some perturbation among other janitors is also apparent. Fearing that a wave of anti-janitor feeling has started at Harvard, a representative commented, "If it were a Dartmouth man, you could understand it but a Harvard...
...effect: "We know that investors will never take the trouble to plough through a registration statement. We know that many of them will not even read an offering prospectus, though we now insist that they at least have one in their hand before buying. Probably they would not understand it if they did read it. This mass of information is assembled, not for the average investor, but for the people who help make up the investor's mind-bankers, brokers, trustees, analysts, investment counsels, statistical services. These are the experts who guide investment opinion. If we have available...