Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...understand why I do not comment at greater length. . . . I wish to render an accounting first to the Government of my country. But I do desire to express to you . . . my complete satisfaction...
Americans would understand. But in Europe, they do not understand this giant of the Senate, his primitive background, and incalculable idealism. In Europe they believe that all politicians are realists. Non-partisan experts have said for years that debts and reparations should be cancelled, that the Polish Corridor was an invention of the devil, but these honest opinions in the mouth of a politician are for Europe nothing short of deadly weapons of aggression. Warsaw's newssheets shouted "Borah, a German Agent," the mildest adjective that Paris papers found for him was "naïve." Intentionally...
...both have had to meet keen foreign competition from Holland and France, and face abnormal mortality among our oysters owing to disease, the origin and cause of which remain obscure. It has been my experience that the slipper limpet is the worst enemy preying on my oysters and I understand that 4,000 tons of these pests have been removed from the River Colne in the past five years...
...merely administrative units, not completely autonomous units, the results, though they may be important, will certainly not be Oxonian, since the very essence of Oxford is the autonomy of the college; and that autonomy is guarded with a jealous love which the outsider finds it hard to understand or to value at its true worth...
...Russell's former instructor had an effective last word. "I see now what Socrates would have said, as he drew his cloak about him, in the conclusion of the missing dialogue; 'I understand now, my dear Bertrand, the meaning of meaning is that my mouth is watering...