Word: understood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...measure by which to judge a decision rendered by men whose business it is to make continually unbiased decisions in far weightier matters than were here involved. Unfortunately Mr. Palmer's letter has not been confined to University circles where perhaps it would be laughed at and understood. It has been copied in the public press, in one instance under the caption "Unfair to Washington." Governor McCall, Judge De Courey and Dean Albers have had too much experience probably to give the matter more than a passing thought but the fact remains that a student in the University publicly...
Although it is important that as many members of the University as possible join the parade to the field, which forms in the Yard, the College Office wishes it understood that cuts from classes or laboratory periods beginning at 2.30 or later will not be excused. HARVARD. PRINCETON. Conlon, s.s. c.f., Strubing Lincoln, 3b. r.f., Lee Emmons, 2b. s.s., Trimble Hallowell, r.f. l.f., MacNamara Frothingham, l.f. c., Fisher Hallock, c.f. 2b., McPhee Bigelow, 1b. 1b., Cook Gammack, c. 3b., Keyes Felton, p. p., Warburton, St. John...
...Volstead Act prohibits the manufacture sale and transportation of potable alcoholic liquors containing as much as one-half of one per cent of liquor measured by volume. The reason for this seemingly small limit is not as fully understood as it should be and the reason for the rule is because of the attitude of the brewers themselves. The early state wide prohibition laws quite generally permitted the manufacture and sale of beer containing alcohol up to two per cent. The brewers who, in fact controlled in one way or another a great part of the saloons, were determined that...
...tasted it and understood that I had just made the acquaintance of the cocktail...
...life. They have an abiding faith in a better future for all mankind. They discard and denounce a system of fixing wages on the sole basis of family budgets and bread bills. Workers are entitled not only to a living, but modern society must provide more than what is understood by the term, "a living." It must concede to all workers a fairer reward for their contribution to society, a contribution without which a progressing civilization is impossible...