Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the big new cruiser Memphis arrived, the Asheville moved up to Gracias a Dios. Down the coast at Bluefields arrived the U. S. gunboat Sacramento; from Panama hurried the Rochester, flagship of the Special Service Squadron. But what U. S. citizens along the Nicaraguan coast could not understand was why these war vessels, as on former occasions of murder and insurrection, did not immediately debark their fighting forces and plunge them into the jungle to exact eye-for-an-eye justice...
According to the release it will "seek to understand the problem of those departments (the various Harvard departments) and to suggest methods which represent a combination of experience elsewhere with the needs of particular departments here...
...special train took the Speaker home to Cincinnati. Into ivy-clad "Rookwood," the old-fashioned family residence on a green knoll, was carried the grey casket. Waiting there was Mrs. Longworth's stepmother, Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Sr. Also there was a little girl with flaxen curls. Paulina could hardly understand when Mother took her in her arms, told her gently that Father was dead. ... To the house came the President of the U. S. who bowed his head and moved his lips silently. Also came the Vice President,* members of the Cabinet, a dozen Senators, nearly 100 members...
...People wonder why Jim and I vacation in two different parts of the country. . . . We understand each other perfectly. We love each other but we have been independent. This independence has caused people to talk...
...distance. The atomic structures of elements heavier than helium are like helium's-a nuclear core of protons held together and neutralized by fewer electrons and the difference between protons and nuclear electrons made up by an equal number of electrons in one or more enveloping orbits. To understand how the speed of an atom's orbital electrons might be measured, take the illustration of a ball bounced against a figure on a moving merry-go-round. The speed of the ball as it strikes the moving figure will differ from the speed of the ball...