Word: understood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...understood that the roadbed of the bridge will be reconditioned and resurfaced, transforming the present rough street into a smooth roadway. Officials of the public works department announce that the bridge during the time of repairing will be closed to vehicle traffic only; the closing does not effect pedestrians...
Until very recently it was understood that the new line would be inaugurated by a handshake across the Franco-Italian frontier between President Gaston Doumergue and Prime Minister Benito Mussolini. That would have been no more than appropriate-for unquestionably this de luxe Riviera route is of greater social importance than the trans-Pyrenean freight line recently opened by the King of Spain and the President of France (TIME, July 23). Unfortunately relations between France and Italy are just now so tense that at the last minute it was considered wiser to omit the gesture of a nation-to-nation...
...home consumption. 2) Farm Relief - Federal assistance in distributing marketing costs over units of any crop in which a price-depressing sur plus occurs. 3) Water Power - Government develop ment, ownership and control of undevel oped sites still in the Government's hands. The Smith proposal was also understood to include Government operation of public power-plants, if necessary, though this tenet had not been stressed in expositions of the main thesis against long leases of public power sites to privateers, and leases without adequate rate-controlling and re capture clauses. Nominee Hoover had generalized from three proposals...
...Clark '29, as president of the Republican Club, has entire charge of the undertaking. Men from every class, however, have been named to lead the various sections of the Harvard Republican body Friday night. The hour has not been definitely announced but it is understood from officials of the organization that concrete plans will be made public within the next two days...
Himself a Jew, Poet Untermeyer understood the tragedy of Jewish exile in Egypt, understood the something-more-than-Jew which enabled Moses to organize the return to Palestine. This something more Untermeyer fixes at 50% Egyptian blood, combined with upbringing at the sophisticated Egyptian court. The bulrush theory is but a myth concocted for publicity purposes when the Pharaoh's daughter found herself with child of a passionate Semitic lover...