Word: understood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...straightaway will run. Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch and Abbott, the University architects, will draw the plans for the new stands which will accommodate about the same number as the old wooden structure. Though no exact figures are available as to the cost of this improvement on Soldiers Field, it is understood that the sum will be in the vicinity of $175,000. When completed, the stands will be left in position permanently, or until such a time as a radical change in the Harvard football seating arrangements are made...
Bell stated last night that Grover Loening, designer and builder of amphibian planes, who last year sponsored an intercollegiate altitude contest which was cancelled because of lack of competitors, is now working on plans for a new contest. Although no details will be announced for several months, it is understood that the new competition will take the form of a contest covering a year of flight in which the best records and development during that period will determine the winner. Last year Mr. Loening offered several substantial cash prizes for the winning airmen and it is believed that he will...
...second decree signed last week by Italy's short, bantamweight King, established the new supreme organ of state, the Fascist Grand Council (TIME, Oct. 1), by appointing 44 puissant Fascisti to sit as "the first two categories" of the Council. Il Duce was understood to be powerfully meditating on which Fascists he will tell His Majesty to appoint in the third category...
...completely understood the highly complex method of transferring Reparations "in kind" from Germany to the Allies. Last week Parisian gendarmes clapped M. Pollier into jail. People' said he had used his unusual knowledge to cheat the French Government out of some 80,000,000 francs worth of German sugar paid as Reparations in kind...
...danced their dark saturnalia, heads thrown weirdly back as if their necks were broken, white teeth and eyeballs gleaming, while couples seizing one another from time to time fled from the circle, as if pursued by furies, into the forest to share and slake their ecstasy." Author Seabrook understood the totality of this abandon following as it did upon ceremonial Voodoo rites of purification. He himself, a white, an American, shared in the rites. At his initiation ceremony, he says, he witnessed the virtual transsub stantiation of girl into goat, at the sacrificial altar. Goat moaned, girl bleated; and when...