Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Attorney General Clarence A. Barnes cannot understand what Harvard fears from his pending bill to outlaw employment of Communists in educational institutions...
...Please understand that this is only one straw in the gridiron typhoon now howling around the Union rotunda. Local presses have used it as a springboard to boom Harman as a leading candidate to succeed Dick Harlow on Soldiers field come spring practice some six weeks hence. Everyone recalls the two spectacular victories over the Crimson that the Berlian maestro perpeirated...
...most striking characteristic of Othello' is its structure. Whereas in most tragedies, the hero maintains control until the turning point in the play is reached, here we have the villain in command until the climax. It is proportionately hard to understand". Professor G. L. Kittredge '82 emphasized, this point in the second lecture of his series on the "Five tragedies of Shakspere" last night in Sanders Theatre...
...first aim of any newspaper must be to present truthfully the important happenings in its community. That is not a task to minimize, for to know what is important one must understand the people, the place, the time. If the editors once know what news will be important to the readers, they must decide how far they are willing to let superficial reader interest guide them in the selection of what is to be printed. The CRIMSON is not the Monitor, nor is it the Record: it socks both solidity and color...
...period of 1916 to 1925, he turned his spear backward seven times, at the rate of about once a year." That was a pretty good explanation, except for two points: 1) it dealt with only a small segment of a long and tortuous career, and 2) some might not understand that American for "turned his spear" is "double-crossed...