Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ergo propter hoc reasoning, that one reason for giving us the bums' rush lay in the fact that I had spent part of the year in writing a book about a Third Avenue bar [Third Avenue, New York; Little, Brown; $2]. This is close, but no cigar; I understand that in reality, my failure to report three times weekly in Tim Costello's Social Register Saloon on Third Avenue, a grogshop sometimes known as the Almanac de Gotha Bar & Grill, was one cause of my dismissal...
Prefect Luizet felt the ground swell of sympathy for Paris chiffoniers, and annulled his directive. Declared one of the reprieved entrepreneurs: "What we want .to keep above all else is our liberty. You understand? We want to be our own bosses...
Ruth Marshall, from the U.S., and Gwendoline Eades, from Britain, were two of 148 U.S. and British teachers who have swapped places for a year, the better to understand each other's ways. The English-Speaking Union helped arrange the trades...
...spent his evenings studying commercial art at Brooklyn's Pratt Institute. He has never stopped studying, and he insists that Critic Roger Fry, Novelist André Malraux and Philosopher John Dewey have taught him a lot about the uses of art, "although I don't understand them half the time...
...Hicks is not too clear about what a resident intellectual should do to improve matters, nor too cheerful about Roxborough's prospects, with or without intellectual aid. But he still likes the place, even if the place doesn't altogether like him. "I cannot understand why anyone wants to live in New York or Chicago or Washington or San Francisco...