Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...becoming more intense by concentration upon political symbolism, but its intensity does not penetrate the consciousness of the mass of readers because his syntax is still involved, his imagery still "metaphysical" in the XVIIth century sense. Nevertheless, there is vast improvement in communication over previous volumes. One can understand these poems. The poetry of Auden is no longer the Chinese puzzle it was when it first began and when an aristocratic damsel in his "literary senate" gave her applause in those incomparable words, too funny to be other than apocryphal: "I feel Mr. Auden's poetry even though...
...that the railroad-business is an old business. Railroad employes and employers are used to bargaining with each other. They understand and like each other. And since 1926, the year the Railway Labor Act was passed, it has been compulsory, if one side fails to answer the other on wage and work proposals within 30 days, to resort to the National Mediation Board...
...Maitre des Forges," by Georges Ohnet, is an unblushingly melodramatic tale of love between noblesse and bourgeoisie, and the dire effects of pride. The heaviness of the plot is compensated for, however, by skillful acting, pleasing repartee for those who can understand it, and a delightful delineation of a very comical nouveau-riche...
...propose to submit to any proposition which I do not understand," grumbled John C. Watson of John...
...Manhattan Chairman Walter Frew of Corn Exchange Bank Trust Co., whose statements anyone is supposed to be able to understand, pointed out that his commercial loans now amounted to only $9,000,000, whereas that item used to run as high as $50,000,000. As for return on his money, Banker Frew was averaging only 4.28% on mortgages, 4.12% on loans and discounts, 2.96% on Government bonds, which at the year end comprised more than one-half of all the bank's earning assets...