Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...declared: "They like to feel their arts and culture generally are appreciated by the western world, and are disposed to look upon us as inclined more to the material and rather neglectful of their arts. The more we can show our appreciation of these things, the better the understanding will be. ... It is also essential that they understand that we care more for their arts and culture than they give us credit...
...right for a society that is to protect animals from cruelty to do so? I understand it is the law to have a dog license, but that society should give me notice before taking my dog away...
...this little book are called: The Mookse and the Gripes, The Muddest Thick That Was Ever Heard Dump, The Ondt and the Gracehoper. So far, only Parts I and II of Work in Progress have been printed: in transition, experimentalist quarterly published in Paris. Say those who profess to understand the design of the whole: Hero H. C. Earwicker, onetime postman, hotelkeeper, shopkeeper, now working in Guinness's brewery, is a Dublin citizen, but a native of Norway. He is married, has children; but his past is not blameless. A girl named Anna Livia haunts his slumbers...
Kwong's arguments included the topic that Americans do not understand the Chinese as a civilized race of people, the attitude caused by the press being wrong. When questioned after the debate he made the following statement: "The Chinese are not just laundrymen and restaurant owners; there is a higher class of people, educated people. The abolition of Extra-territoriality will come in China, whether the western nations want it or not, and after it does come China will not be in a more disorganized state, for the foreign interference is a cause of frequent uprisings...
...inflected nouns in Sanskrit are accented on the stem, while less used cases, genitive and dative for example, are accented on the endings to aid the hearer's ear. "For man's tendency to laziness," says Zipf, "will prevent his accenting any element in language which his hearer will understand with cut accent...