Word: understands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pravda explained: "It is only necessary to understand that any commission of error or act, even a heavy crime, if admitted and not hidden, if brought to the knowledge of organs of Soviet power, constitutes much smaller guilt than a secret agreement with the enemy for fulfillment of espionage commissions...
When one considers the fact that the student body of the new Harvard School is to be recruited from men active in the government service one can understand the appropriateness of Dr. Williams's appointment. These classes can be assured not only of the services of a sound administrator but of one who can appreciate their unique approach to the various curricular problems that come before them. --N. Y. Herald-Tribune...
...here or there, refusing him an income from the public funds, fighting to keep Edward's family from his wedding. Now the Prime Minister wishes to add insult to intolerance by refusing to Mrs. Simpson the title the Duke of Windsor's wife would ordinarily expect. Americans will not understand this move who have been taught to believe that the virtue of the English is their sense of fairness and good humor and their reluctance to hurt a man when he is down...
...think it is foolish of the boy to withdraw from the Law School because of a small thing like this," Seavey said, "I understand perfectly well how the boy felt and I don't blame him in the least." He added that he had mailed a letter to the boy apologizing for the slur...
Last week before the funeral Governor Browning had a telephone call from Charles West, Under Secretary of the Interior who runs many of Franklin Roosevelt's errands at the Capitol. Mr. West gave him to understand that the President wanted to see him right away before he appointed a new Senator. Governor Browning was going to Washington anyhow to attend a conference of Southern Governors and utilities commissioners. When he shook off the crowd of politicians at the funeral and boarded his train East, whom should he find but one of the mourners. Representative Samuel D. McReynolds of Chattanooga...