Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When any Scholar is able to understand Tully . . . make and speake true Latine in Verse and Prose . . . decline perfectly the Paradigms of Nounes, and Verbes in the Greek tongue; let him then and not before be capable of admission into the Colledge...
...pulled out, his fantasy search for Dumartin continues because the only way it could end would be for him to admit to himself his own identity. In the Basle hospital, Professor Tscherko tries ineffectually to break through his subordinate's formidable psychosis, fails because he does not understand it. Eventually, Dumartin's colleague, Dr. Wendt (Tom Kraa), who has more than an inkling of what is wrong, finds a cure which, as simple as the trick which enabled Dumartin's dementia to begin, erases it by removing its motive...
...Skillman's "Squash Racquets", next to the contents of the book itself, perhaps the most important item is the arrangement and method of teaching in the volume. The whole work is thoroughly outlined in the simplest fashion. It is written in a form which is easy to memorize and understand. In my experience, it is the very best book on squash racquets in the field...
...reporters that he was leaving a $9,000 a year job for a pension just one-sixth as large. "I can hardly rely on the Government's retirement pay to support my family. I am being given the munificent sum of $1,500 a year. I cannot understand why Congress fails to realize that the men of the Secret Service who occupy hazardous positions are entitled to adequate retirement considerations." Retiring Chief Moran, long famed for his lack of communicability, said he might eke out his diminished income by writing his reminiscences...
...China next, Spain isn't to my taste. The Russians got everything into their hands in the last few weeks. Just before I left we received a new .emblem with the Soviet insignia. The stationery of the Air Ministry now has a Red Soviet star. What I cannot understand is how anybody can pretend the so-called Valencia Government is anything but a Soviet Government under Moscow's orders. ... A regular expeditionary force has been landed in Spain by the Soviets. . . . Spain already is nothing but a Soviet colony to be the base of a 'European revolution...