Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...injunction stuff on me. It'll be like a jackrabbit trying to tree a wild cat ... Some of these quill suckers-said my action was bad precedent and that if I could do that for oil, it could be done for cotton and wheat. They don't understand that an executive order must invariably follow the law and there's no law to control cotton or wheat production when the price is less than its value...
Danger makes life exciting. Aware of this, polo-players, who might not find it elsewhere, enjoy a spice of danger in their favorite game. But what about polo-players' wives, who understand the danger but cannot enjoy it? One such wife wrote a letter to Polo (monthly) suggesting a new rule: if a player, four minutes after a fall, is still unable to mount, he should be disqualified for the rest of the game...
...understand that within a comparatively short time the Pullman Co. has issued orders to omit the customary cuspidor from the berth section of their sleeping cars...
...never," said he, "tell shareholders how the balance of profit and loss is made up. . . . It is not easy for the average man to understand...
...world has long made peace with the Jews, but the Jews won't make peace with the world. I understand the Jews better than many others because I am an Irishman...