Word: understood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...younger son, Corliss, is temporarily engaged in a job less thoroughly understood by the American public. He is a senior at Harvard. His job might possibly be described as the pursuit of truth. But there appeared, last week, to be a difference of opinion between Mr. Corliss Lament and certain Harvard authorities as to the limits within which the truth might be publicly pursued...
...have been finally crystallized in a definite statement that such in fact will be the case. In the future, the Business School men will find themselves, in their splendid isolation, in a unique position for Cambridge to concentrate and to wrestle with the tremendous problems with which it is understood, they are constantly engaged. For many reasons, this disposition of the projected School will prove advantageous. But it must be kept in mind that such desirable expansion depends, with the fate of the Chemistry department and the Fine Arts museum on the success of the endowment fund. In the hands...
Adolph Hitler, the other prime investigator of the revolt, together with former Chief of Police Poehner, was sentenced to five years of confinement in a fortress and fined 200 gold marks. Since it was understood, however, that he will be obliged to serve only six months-and then receive a parole for good behavior, his followers received the verdict with loud approval, signalled it from the housetops with wigwagging, deluged Hitler and Ludendorff with floral tributes, cried out: "Down with Von Kahr, Von Lossow, Seisser...
Some time ago (TIME, Feb. 4) William Randolph Hearst secured an apology from The New York World for saying that he was understood to be the publisher to whom President Harding had referred as saying one thing in private conversation and another thing in his paper. Not content with one apology, Mr. Hearst brought libel suit in England and secured an apology for the same remark from the Associated Newspapers, Ltd., and the Continental Daily Mail. Having produced a letter from the late President showing the assertion to be false, Mr. Hearst magnanimously accepted an apology and an arrangement...
...thrown in to prison during the War, Dr. Scott Nearing, the radical professor who was forced to leave the University of Pennsylvania when the United States entered the War, and W. Z. Foster, leader were proposed at a recent Board meeting, but were provisionally voted down. It is understood that through the insistence of the Undergraduate Committee, the present new committee on speakers was appointed by the Board...