Word: understood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...participation of the employees' representative under the plan of representation in these matters, we do not want to be understood as saying that the result is one in which all are a happy family, for there will always be kicking and controversy, but we believe by allowing the representative to partake of and play a part in the questions of waste, production, improved conditions and the many details that enter into the performing of a day's work, that it has the same effect as the Volstead Act had on beer. We still have beer, but the kick is removed...
...nervous disorders, it is quite in accord with principles which they know and apply -- sometimes with music itself. In war hospitals it was found that quiet music had a most beneficial effect on certain cases of shell-shock, especially when someone could be found to perform it who understood how to make it the vehicle of a personal influence of quietude...
...probable that the English teams will agree to these conditions, with the exception of the two-mile race, as it is understood that they prefer to run the three-mile distance. The counting of second places, if the suggestion is accepted by the Englishmen, will be an innovation in International meets. In the four previous meets, it was unnecessary to provide for the case of a tie score, as only nine events were held...
...Freshmen did not row yesterday but will practice today. It is generally understood that there will be no radical change in the yearlings' seating for the New London race...
...Hodgdon does not appear to have understood that Valparaiso is unique among educational institutions. In almost all other schools and colleges, athletics, fraternities, social activities, things outside of studies, have come to occupy the chief attention of many students, simply because the students are more interested in them than in their studies. But in Valparaiso the students have always been more interested in their studies than in these other activities. This is a remarkable situation and it marks Valparaiso as an institution apart from others. Such a mark of distinction ought by all means to be retained...