Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Institute had been commissioned by the Imperial Conference to nominate firms from whom 100,000 tractors costing some ?65,000,000 ($325,000,000) would be purchased to carry out a four-year plan of Empire Development. In their willingness to be nominated, I. H. C., Ltd. could understand Director Owen's willingness, which he presently disclosed, to accept ?30,000 for the conduct of "experiments" at his Institute preliminary to the four-year plan. Impressive letters on stationery headed Treasury and Imperial Conference gave Swindler Owen the cachet not only of honor but of friendship with the great...
...prime importance to both author and publisher caught in the deluge of books on the Soviets. The book is a reproduction of the author's series of lectures on Russia given before the Lowell Institute this spring. It is only with this in mind that one can understand why a book of such an elementary nature has been published by Dr. Hopper, who is undoubtedly a foremost authority on present day Russia...
Miss Chatterton, as Fay, has been mated with the "catch" of the London season, which proves to be Paul Cavanaugh disguised as Ronald Kilkerry. We are given to understand by those in authority at Hollywood that his lordship is infatuated with the sister-in-law of her ladyship; the inevitable lost cigarette-case and characteristic handwriting give the show away to Miss Chatterton before the first hundred feet of celluloid have...
Pumping the green spigot handles. Mr. Vassos explained: "The crowd that comes in here is grey. That is why my dominant motive is grey. . . . When you understand what I am doing, setting off the grey by the ultragrey, you will like it even better...
Oxford, Buenos Aires and Chicago are the three most intoxicated districts in the world according to the university's magazine "The Isis." The two cities have no designated reason for their debauchery, but the Oxonian undergraduates drink "from habit." Why "The Isis" should object to this is hard to understand when one realizes that huntsmen dress purely as a matter of habit...