Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...possession of an ideology more adaptable to the needs of the country and which gives promise of making its exponents the agents of the restoration of order and unity to China. It is the work of the late Sun Yat Sen, the revolutionary leader who was able to understand both the past glories and the future problems of China and who mapped out a scheme of national development that is the goal of the Nanking regime. Even the generals that revolt against its authority claim as their motive a greater devotion to the principles of Sun Yat Sen than that...
...Fiddler Kreisler, nor a Blind sign and cup hung on any famed musician. But it is a thrust, I think, against Mr. Richards' complaint of a widespread musical hypocrisy and his statement that people "impressed by the eminence of artists claim to appreciate what they neither enjoy nor understand...
Long after the match was over they were talking about it on the veranda of the casino and over at the Greenbrier, using what they knew about the temperaments of the players, as much as their memory of what they had seen, to understand what had happened. It was an episode pregnant with questions of sportsmanship and it took place under the eyes of Joseph W. Wear, chairman of the Davis Cup Committee, in a quarter final match of the Mason & Dixon tournament at White Sulphur Springs, just three days before the 1930 Davis Cup team was to be selected...
...kindly, dignified, brave and wise old man. Not all his story was simple; when Linderman had difficulty in following the complications of the ancient tobacco-seed ceremony, Plenty-coups repeated the explanation twice, then said: "Ho! There is Something here! Something that does not wish you to understand. Do not try, Sign-Talker. Let it alone...
Tens of thousands of the mourners who filed through the Writers' Club last week were old soldiers. Not all of them appreciate or understand the poet's later works, the dramas Bathhouse and Bedbug against which even some Moscow dramatic critics carped, one writing that "again like Kipling, our Mayakovsky has never written a great play, however great his poems...