Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mass portrait of Captain Banning Cocq's conceited officers. This huge, sombre painting, generally called The Night Watch, is now recognized as one of the world's greatest. When it was unveiled, all Amsterdam laughed, both at the officers and at Rembrandt. Even his friends could not understand his modern chiaroscuro. As a result, Rembrandt's art went out of style, himself into bankruptcy...
...strange," said Dr. Jewett, "how you can take a voice to pieces, mess it all up, and still get something you can understand." Dr. Jewett has been careful to keep the cable's development anonymous, to credit many workers with research contributions...
...convinced," said Engineer Hoover, whose own great days were boom days, "that when we fully understand the economic history of the period of the Twenties, we shall find that the debacle which terminated at the end of another apparently highly prosperous period was largely contributed to by the failure of industry to pass its improvement-through labor-saving devices-on to the consumer...
...Then last spring in the middle of the proceedings his attorney had to announce: "It is unfortunate that Mr. Meehan cannot take the stand in his own defense . . . his doctors inform me . . . that the state of his health is such that it is impossible for him to appear. I understand that the Commission's doctor ... is of similar opinion." Broker Meehan dropped from the news, and the Meehan case, still undecided, dragged on without...
...into unmerited disrepute by its short-sighted selfishness, its violent and irresponsible attacks on the New Deal and its hook-up with interests which the average American businessman fears-and has reason to fear. . . . Chamber of Commerce thinking has been dominated by men . . . who could not or would not understand that in our system it is just as important to have customers who can buy as it is to have goods to sell." The Dry Goods Association is the second big trade organization to pull out of the C. of C. this year, the National Automobile Manufacturers having quit last...