Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...possible a Development Company for North China: "I have assumed the Presidency of the South Manchuria Railway with the firm determination to become active on the Asiatic mainland. Japan is going to start operations in North China. The arrow has left the bow! Most Japanese do not yet understand the great importance of these operations, and this lack of understanding will beyond doubt cause a really serious national crisis. The progress of these operations will decide the destiny of the Japanese race and its rise or fall in the World. To carry through these operations a domestic renovation is inevitable...
...Detroit, after he had lost $2,000 in Government bonds at a revival service, the Rev. William H. Grain said. "I can't understand it. I had them tucked away in my sock, with the bottom of my long underwear pulled down tight over the sock. Mind you, though, I don't suspect any of the brethren...
More humbly, Dr. Conley pointed to osteopathy's great current weakness. The cult started with the single theory that all disease was caused by malposition of bones and could be cured by manipulation of joints. After 43 years of osteopathic education, osteopaths still do not understand, said Dr. Conley, exactly what happens in the tissues as a result of an osteopathic lesion, as well as the physiological reactions following its correction...
...savage does not try to understand the mechanics of magical transmissions, but it seems obvious to him that objects once in contact retain a mystic affinity. Thus he believes that if his spear has wounded an enemy who escaped, he can make the wound fester by thrusting the spearpoint into a fire. He must take extreme care in disposing of his hair cuttings, his nail parings, his spittle and his excrement lest these things which remain a vital part of him fall into hostile hands. More abstruse forms of wizardry he claims to know nothing about, pointing out reasonably that...
Prison Life Stories seemed to be trying to do two mutually exclusive things at once. In "A Dedication" Warden Lawes soberly hoped that "those who are interested in a more rational approach to the problems engendered by delinquency will more clearly understand its many aspects. ... As a result of our efforts, I trust that the public will be more fully enlightened on the subject of crime, and thereby able to formulate definite policies concerning that important social question." Farther back in the magazine Publisher Theodore Epstein, who runs a printing plant, took a more sensational tack by advertising: "SING SING...