Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...understand it is a style-book rule at the post-office that, whenever a letter or post-card arrives that the mailman doesn't know what to do with, it is to be delivered immediately to the Princetonian...
...this the command of the language is an absolute sine qua non. Inexperto crede. I have attempted at various times to become familiar with Greek, but have not had much success because of my late start. The more I try to understand the major monuments of the Greek world, the more I am baffled by my inability to be sure exactly what significance is to be attached to the expressions on which arguments and descriptions turn. A smattering is better than nothing, and so is a dictionary, but there is no substitute for intimacy...
...citizens understand that if people set out to sell dope or whiskey or women, somebody is going to get jailed, hurt or killed. In some cities even such a homely thing as the family wash may cause cracked skulls, bombings. Last week saw the continuation of a new kind of peacetime war. The Nation's milk, product of patient kine, beverage of babies, churned up in violence.* Near Plainfield, Ill. The Guernsey herd of Isaac Lentz, an independent dairyman who had withdrawn from a local milk distributing association and cut his price, lay in their stalls placidly swishing their...
Significance- Laymen who could not understand why the German mark should almost touch par last week while the German Government claimed to be weltering in an "unprecedented crisis," were enlightened by their bankers. They also learned why Germany, having outstripped all competition in exports, remains hard-pressed, unable to meet her obligations...
...Rats!" said Mouse Man Peyser. "They don't understand about that...