Word: understood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Under the terms of his new contract at Milton, Buell will not act as an official football coach, it was understood. He may, however, coach in an unofficial capacity...
...like a sheep with a cold in its nose, we think, simply because he likes to. Such a conception is false. Probably the Harvard man dislikes this snare-drum accent just as much as any one else, and yet is powerless to help himself because to make himself understood when strolling abroad among the winding alleys of Boston, he must talk that...
...first two suggestions were scotched by the Dean of Westminster, the very Reverend William Foxley Morris, with whom the final decision in the matter rests and who gave it to be understood that no extension building of any kind would be made for at least ten years...
...damp green mysteries of Africa, with elephant hunting, exploring and literature. His former opus, Among Pygmies and Gorillas, was an account of a zoological probe into the centre of the dark continent. This is a volume of short stories; love stories, African anecdotes, color stories about a chief who understood black magic, a leopard hunt, a march of wild phantoms through the jungle. The obvious comment upon princes, even Swedish princes, who write books is that laudatory insult reserved, also for bears who ride bicycles. But the literary lapses of Prince William do not suggest the comparison; he rides...
...Marfleet Foundation provides for a series of three lectures to be given triennially "on some topic relating to the history or government of the United States or Canada." Professor Munro could not be reached last night, but it is understood that he will speak on subjects dealing with relations between the two countries...