Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...understand you properly? There was no hearing? . . . Have you the original minutes in the case...
...third group attempts to understand the potential educational worth of the examination and tries to discover how the entire curriculum in English can be systematically strengthened by intelligent use of intelligently constructed examinations--school tests and longer papers of the essay type--given at suitable intervals...
Members of Mr. Hoover's entourage had again to regret that the country was too dull-witted to understand Herbert Hoover, or that he was not sufficiently articulate to make himself clear at the first try. Practical politicians, on the other hand, regretted that Mr. Hoover had not recognized in the Report a beautiful magic carpet for 1932; that he had first nailed it down Dry so that it could not fly, then damaged it more by trying to pull out his nails...
...Plan of direct contribution and to the so called insurance Plan. I read with a great deal of interest Mr. Coolidge's very fair summary of the situation as viewed by the Harvard Fund Council. However, his summary shows beyond question of a doubt that the Council does not understand the Insurance Plan which I presented to the Officers of the class of 1931. Although the matter is probably closed for the present graduating class I do wish to clear up all errors and misunderstandings for future senior classes; therefore, I request an opportunity to lay before the undergraduate body...
...committee in charge has chosen a theme of this practical nature because it feels that one of the essential needs of the day is to understand more clearly how to apply Christian ethics to the solution of some of the more perplexing social problems, and how the processes of the state can be made to serve the needs of the many, rather than to become the instrument of the privileged...