Word: understood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...understood that Mr. Bacon was recommended to President E. B. Garey, of St. John's, by President Lowell, and he was selected by a committee headed by Dr. J. H. Latane, professor of American History at Johns Hopkins University...
...statement of the News editors quoted above is, of course, by no means startling; it was thoroughly to be means expected that the policies voiced by the News would be those of the H. A. A. officials. To have these policies clearly expressed and generally understood, however, is an object of sufficient value to give the H. A. A. News, so long as it lives up to its expressed intention of avoiding "the ballyhoo type of publicity", an important place among Harvard publications...
Gradually, as President Ben opened and showed his mind, observers understood why the British Unions were whipped in the General Strike (TIME, May 10 to Nov. 29, 1926), why they have just accepted a 2½% cut in railway wages (TIME, Aug. 6), and why Great Britain is so safe for Constitutional Monarchy and employer Peers...
Percy Hammond, dramatic critic of the New York Herald Tribune, wrote last week a brusque review of He Understood Women (see THEATRE). Then, late in the night, he got quickly into a waiting automobile, driven by his wife, and set off for the country. A car came up toward Percy Hammond at a great rate of speed, hit his auto and turned it over, causing bruises to Mrs. Hammond and more serious injuries to her husband, so that it would be necessary for him to carry his write arm in a sling. The driver of the car was an obscure...
...Nicolo watched Savonarola hypnotizing the garish Florentine crowds into demure god-fearing citizenry, and the street gamins into veritable "boyscouts of the Lord." He suspected the Friar of charlatanism, perhaps because he tried to rationalize the colorful sermons that so inspired a people who felt, but understood nothing...