Word: understands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hiram year is divided into nine-week quarters during which each student takes one "intensive" and one "running course." Whether or not this "running course" is really running or just another wrestling bout is a little hard to understand...
...imaginative mind. Sirens screamed. Great tongues of flame lapped at Peabody. Squads of firemen, regardless of personal risk or private property, ran in with axes. There were sickening sounds, and then the smoke-eaters appeared at the windows and threw out the cases. (Firemen can't be expected to understand about these things: lost of them are Democrats...
Your classification of poets . . . makes a sorry exhibition of criticism. What does all your confident assertion about poets, poetasters, poeticules, and the function of communication mean? Not much I think, except your own sense of power-for one issue-over persons whom you obviously don't understand nor even recognize. Jeffers is a vasty poetaster, William Carlos Williams is a poetaster, Prokosch is an accomplished poetaster, Taggard is empty, nondescript, Donald Davidson is poeticulous, Fearing is a poeticule, say you. Where is your badge for all this authority? Probably it's a book by I. A. Richards...
...Raymond explained that in the days when skiing was new in this region, waxing was a science which only experts could understand. The "universal waxes" sold to the average skier in those days were far from satisfactory...
Nothing is simpler to understand than II Duce's colonial policy, Salvemini claims, "since the Italian dictator has to do something to keep his subjects in a constant state of expectation. . . Ethiopia is just the opposite of an asset to Italy...