Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than their immediate effect upon our own forefathers; for both Greece and Italy were repeatedly overrun by invading tribes in very early times, most of whom came from the North, and the Greeks and Romans were to a considerable extent the descendants of these northern invaders. He who would understand the origins, as well as the downfall, of classical culture must turn his eyes to the restless barbarians of Central Europe
...understand that Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi has tuberculosis. Will you p'ease inform us when St. Gandhi contracted the disease and what his condition is at present, if those rumors are true? We should like to have this information immediately as we wish to use it in connection with an article to appear in the coming Optimist. We should also appreciate other details which you may have available concerning Mr. Gandhi's tuberculosis...
Harvard, dear, old, trustworthy Harvard, is planning a course for prison wardens. If this is not "reductio ad absurdum" to the limit, we are at a loss to understand what it is.... Just what degree will be awarded at the conclusion of this work in higher education is not as yet suggested but very likely it will be something imposing like "B. B. R." meaning "Bachelor of Bum Rehabilitation...
...chief difficulty seems to be a matter of which mayor in to receive the Legion d'Honnour from a nation which as yet has shown no desire to confer that honor. Nor is it easy to understand on what bases one could justify such recognition. The mayors themselves seem to feel that forensic ability and volubility are the essential qualities necessary to the head man of a show that must have nothing but lead parts. Mayor Curie seems to have essayed to play the role of ingenue and he has acted well...
...multiplicity of qualifications which a man must have to administer a large prison efficiently, economically and with the best results both to the prisoner and the society which imprisons him," said Commissioner Patterson. "In addition to natural qualifications of tact, poise, firmness, tolerance and the ability to understand the other man's viewpoint, wardens must know something of finance, buying, mass feeding, discipline, agriculture, education, recreation, medicine, psychiatry and many other things in order to administer a prison efficiently and along modern lines...