Word: understood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Shortly afterwards Senator James E. Watson of Indiana allowed himself to be heard hammering down the planks which the Presidential feet will tread during the coming drama. In comparative isolation aboard the Pioneer, Mr. Harding was apparently keeping his own counsel and making his own plans. It is understood, however, that in a nation-wide tour next summer the President will make 20 speeches-in which case he will have to have something to talk about. Inasmuch as the President seems by all odds the man most likely to head his party's ticket in 1924, Republican leaders...
...contradiction to the report that Southern Rhodesia was about to enter the Union of South Africa, it is now understood that it has elected to become a self-governing colony entirely independent of the Union. Until recently the whole of Rhodesia was under the administration of the British South Africa Company...
...recent address to the Prussian Diet, Herr Severing, Minister of the Interior, mentioned Ludendorff by name on several occasions. He charged him with what was tantamount to conspiracy against the Republic, and thereby intimated that Ludendorff's part in the reactionist activities is understood but not appreciated. The aims of the royalist organizations are delightfully naive; reestablishment of the monarchy, expulsion of the French and Belgians from the Ruhr, progressive negotiations with Poland in order to keep the front door to Russia wide open and suppression of all revolutionary elements in the country! The aims of the Government...
...debt to the United States to the round figures of $4,600,000,000. According to an unofficial statement the payment was made in gold and was placed to the credit of the United States in the Federal Reserve Bank of the District of New York. It is understood that J. P. Morgan & Co. handled the transaction...
...sport. It is a learned profession, a vocation in the religious sense, a life work compressed into the space of three years. Its practitioners are vowed to poverty, celibacy, obedience and hard work. They sacrifice their personal comfort for a remote and dubious objective, hard to attain, dimly understood, and of more or less speculative value. It is a form of monasticism, a rejection of the world for the edification of the spirt. From this standpoint, the employment of Mr. Haughton at Columbia ought to be regarded as a happy taken of the increase of spirituality in our universities...