Word: understood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lincoln, Neb. In the morning, the pocketbook was still there but Senator Borah's money, some $400, was gone. Gone too was some $300 which Senator Borah's secretary Sam Jones, had left in the pockets of his clothes. A just man, Senator Borah said: "I want it understood that we attach no responsibility for the loss to the State of Nebraska nor to the welcoming committee...
...lectured in the U. S. In 1915 she helped organize Henry Ford's peace ship. Several times she has unsuccessfully tried to become a U. S. citizen (TIME, July11, Oct. 24, 1927). She has always denied that she would bear arms for the U. S., adding that she understood that was not required of women. But judges have considered that her oath of allegiance would be vitiated by her unwillingness to carry a defensive musket...
...When it comes to mathematics, a keen observer could from all idea of the teachers personality and methods of teaching. As for the subject matter, if he were not an adept, he would not understand the first word, and even if he understood, it would be impossible for him to give the readers of the CRIMSON any sort of an idea what it was all about...
...parties have taken up the issue as a political one. The issue is clearly drawn between them not because of any material difference in the platform declarations but because one candidate has deliberately repudiated the plank on prohibition which his party had solemnly set forth. . . . Let it be clearly understood that we will fight to the bitter end the election of Alfred E. Smith, not because he is a member of the Catholic Church . . . but because he has gone out of his way to announce himself as the implacable foe of things that we count most dear. . . . Let there...
...John Pybus, who had never understood his sons, disowned them for slacking during the War. But that war made them rich, and him so poor that he had to sell his musty bookshop and take a job finally as porter in a suburban hotel. Here his grandson, Lance, discovers him, white-haired, philosophic, feeding clouds of friendly pigeons. Lance, gentleman bred, chafed at his parents' flashy new-wealth, scorned his father for concealing the identity of his grandfather. Skipping a generation, Lance brought to understanding old Pybus all his young troubles−mixup with a London tart, throes...