Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...signing this compact at your request, a compact to end war, and yet we understand that you are increasing your navy...
...insisted that the lira be put back on gold at a lower valuation than that at first desired by Signor Mussolini. But from this it must not be rashly assumed that Count Volpi was "asked to resign." The irritable Duce has in other moods given his Finance Minister to understand that he must resist certain highly lucrative offers from the sphere of private business which have become especially tempting of late...
...next contract with the Cardinals, and was traded to the Giants for "Fordham Frankie" Frisch and Fat James Ring. Last year Hornsby captained the Giants with McGraw ill, managed them on their last western trip, brought them home with a chance for the pennant. This winter, people could not understand why Manager McGraw traded him to Boston. In Boston this spring he succeeded Manager Slattery, did what he could with that slovenly club, but has not succeeded in getting it out of seventh place in the National League. "Too bad," say fans. "Hornsby is over the fence...
...commentaries, but chiefly in the self-contradictory New Testament records which seem to him logical enough if arranged psychologically. The avowed object of his search is Jesus the human being, and in no sense the Christ of religious and theological controversy, which somewhat scornfully "he does not pretend to understand." From the confusion of scholars' profusion of detail, Ludwig recreates the world Jesus lived in: the peaceful hillside where he loved to lie and dream his poet dreams, the bustling village on market day, the simple carpenter and fisherfolk, and finally, in glamorous contrast, Jerusalem, loud with the pompous...
...known more about his self portrait, Charles Callan would have been proud indeed. Charles Callan was too stupid to understand that the flash of light which should have been his augury was, in point of fact, a photographic flare which his tamperings with the poor box had caused to be ignited at the precise instant in which an automatic camera caught the features of his startled face. The camera trap was the invention of a policeman, one James O'Donnell, who had already seen his device installed in several haunts but had never before had an opportunity of giving...