Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...here to enforce or to defeat or to humiliate; we are here to understand and to consider our own problems objectively, to remember how closely, in essentials, we depend upon each other. . . . There can be no question about the inherent strength of the German economy provided that it has the capital resources that it requires. . . . But I think our first step is to decide with the greatest possible expedition the means by which this shall be definitely carried into effect. I emphasize: The greatest possible expedition...
...plan we have been working on is as much a product of British thought as American and most of the other nations contributed suggestions. . . . I personally have never been able to understand why statesmen rather than bankers were summoned to this conference. Perhaps it was thought that statesmen are not so busy as bankers...
...Henderson, as I understand it, Conversations are when you wear a blue suit and I a grey one, but a Conference is when we both wear frock coats...
When the doctor came he could do nothing. All the household came quietly in, stood about the room while the mother died. The children came too. When she was dead they still did not understand; the littlest ones asked what had happened...
...Lost World (TIME, Feb. 16, 1925), and from other life-explaining sources, went to Mr. Darrow and said: "I understand that ever since the Scopes trial you've wanted to put forward a motion picture to educate the people to your contentions about Evolution." An arrange ment was made whereby Mr. Laemmle's Universal Pictures would supplement Mr. Cummins' bits with connectives and shots of Mr. Darrow. No scientist, and very, very serious about the proposed picture, Lawyer Darrow called in Smith College's goateed Professor Howard Madison Parshley and they spent three hardworking months preparing explanatory dialog. Last week...