Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year, tries to keep himself lashed into a rage to do his best work. He is full of phobias, fears crossing streets, is mortally terrified of earthquakes. He is surprisingly prudish, a fact which has kept out of The New Yorker all dirty jokes, except those which he cannot understand. This "really great editor" FORTUNE sums up as follows...
...results . . . are disappointing but not hard to understand," President John McKinlay told his stockholders. "Our sales failed to increase to the extent necessary to cover the increased burden put upon us by NRA and other national and local governmental agencies. During the second quarter our payroll was $1,008,000 more than a year ago and our taxes were $626,000 more...
...Able to understand neither the language in which Shakespeare wrote the play nor that in which his Italian mummers were to perform it, Producer Reinhardt drilled his cast from a German script. For a stage, instead of the Piazza San Marco, where most Venetian festivals are held, he chose an obscure and humble piazza called Campo San Trovaso, bounded by a church, two 16th Century tenement houses and a small canal. Shylock's miserly squawkings came from a bridge still decorated by the arms of the Venetian Republic. Gratiano cruised about the canal in a medieval gondola. A garden...
...page column called "In Capitol Letters." The Administration-baiting Tribune said the change was due to disagreement over policy, with the implication that Mrs. Herrick would not conform to the paper's hostile attitude toward the Roosevelts. She said she quit for sentimental reasons which only she would understand...
...would be the last person to uphold the majority of the activities of Adolf Hitler. But I do not feel that TIME'S unwavering and at times monotonous criticism of his policies and person enables me to understand his present position, power and popularity in Germany. I presume terrorism will now be the explanation...