Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...success of the conference seems to have been due to the fact that Chamberlain, Daladier, Hitler and Mussolini were all fundamentally honest and each willing to understand, contemplate and sympathize with the problems of the nations represented by the others...
...Cadet who gave his names as Stanley C. Scott, from Fort Belvoir, Virginia, will ride "Mr. Jackson," for the two understand each other. As the Honorable Colon (Colonel?) Alfaro, Ecuatdorean Ambassador, presented "Poncho" to the Corps, it is not too surprising to learn that it has been arranged that little Cadet Elroy Alfaro, son of sire Colon, will ride "Poncho...
...Anyone who has ever lived in a city where the Legion convened will understand my reasoning. My home is in Cincinnati, and last summer the Legion hit town; it hit the liquor stores, and then hit anyone who objected to its practical jokes. Cars, pedestrians and bystanders were all subjected to the most violent abuses... Cincinnati is only one of many cities that have experienced the graciousness of their Legion guests...
...true England, the Democratic England-just as the France of M. Daladier is not the France of the Popular Front, the true Democratic France. . . . This is the first time in my career as a commentator on international affairs that I am left largely speechless. . . . The thing that I cannot understand and seems almost inconceivable is that no storm of indignation in England or France has yet swept the Chamberlain and Daladier Governments out of office! . . . What has happened to the leaders of the Popular Front-to the elements that compose the Popular Front-that they do not protest against...
Friday, Sept. 30:--Today I saw one of the things in the News that makes me understand Harvard less and less. It was a happy little notice about how Harry Downer got a scholarship up at Cambridge just because his name was Downer. This doesn't make any sense to me. What can be so attractive about the name Downer that people give him scholarships? Especially a feebly growing Downer who is self-admittedly a lazy sort of blighter. Why no Botsford scholarships? I bet erg for erg I can out-lethargy Downer every time out. And if Downer...