Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though I admit that this feat might not prove so difficult for the Count, I was given to understand that his sole claim to distinction in the conflict had been the pinking of his tail surfaces. F. V. NASH Nash Conley Co. Minneapolis, Minn...
...shipments of '"munitions," not "materials" of war to Italy. Blissfully unaware that in the language of statecraft "munitions of war" is the phrase used to denote oil and other war materials as distinct from cannon, machine guns and other "implements" of war, he gave the Press clearly to understand that he had no intention of stopping oil exports...
Said Stakhanov, "I give all my letters to Petrov. I can't read handwriting. They teach me and they teach me but I don't understand." "He has a special teacher to instruct him in the Russian language and simple arithmetic," explained Discoverer Petrov, adding with a laugh. "If he uses the 'Stakhanov Method,' he will be in algebra by the middle...
Ever since the early Cubists first caught the fever in 1910, African Negro sculpture has had an important influence on modern artists. In recent months first-rate exhibitions of this art have been held in Manhattan, Paris, London (TIME, April 119th). Plain gallery-goers sometimes find it difficult to understand much of an art which has nothing whatever to do with the civilized European concept of Beauty, but which stems directly from the basic emotion of fear. But one fact is plain to all eyes: in any showing of African art the bronzes and carvings of the vanished Kingdom...
...operetta stage it somehow fails to click. A possible explanation lies in the choice of Walter Slezak, whose big act is chubby artlessness, to play the part of the psychiatrist. Mr. Slezak was the amiable bumpkin in Music in the Air. And most spectators will find it hard to understand why such a handsome brunette as Nancy McCord ultimately dismisses Baritone Walter Woolf King (formerly Walter Wolf) in favor of Tenor Slezak...