Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...That you feel constrained to return to private practice of your profession, I can well understand...
...simple workman, who rarely spoke at a meeting, then asked a question. He said: 'I have followed the Revolution from the beginning, but cannot understand one thing. Will you please tell me why it is that for many years after the Revolution I never heard of Joseph Stalin? In those days it was all Lenin and Trotzky...
...quite amazed that I can make a good living writing books my audiences hate, making talks my audiences resent. Of course it can't last. Some day somebody will read one of my books or understand what I am saying." So quipped radical Author Evelyn John St. Loe Strachey last month...
Chuckled the conservative Kansas City Star: "It's all right, Brother White. We understand. We've all been through it and you, in your rugged individualism, stood out longer than most...
Perhaps this very straight-forward, sound shallowness will save them from the fate of many efforts at high-brow education over the radio. One cannot educate fifty million people in time to prevent the deluge. Even college graduates, moreover, have been known not to understand the complications of the present economic situation. So a league of crusaders, fighting the obvious demagoguery which now abounds, appealing to American horse-sense, may be just the right weapon in the word-fight of the depression...