Word: understood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...kind of Chinaman shivered at Peking last week as thermometers read 10° below zero; but 1,200 miles southward, in Canton, quite another sort of Chinaman was as warm as a Miami mermaid. The two kinds of Chinamen could by no possibility have understood each other in Chinese, so different are their dialects. But the Yang-kuei tze ("Foreign Devil") has taught a few Chinese of every region English, especially the word "Nationalism...
...held in Madison Square Garden on February 14, it was announced last night by W. J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics. When the Athletic Association first accepted the invitation it was not known that Princeton was to participate in the relay. Yale and the University of Maryland were understood to be the only other competitors...
These lectures will concern the most important developments and discoveries in various fields of engineering, and to be understood will not require any knowledge of engineering. The series is an attempt to place the fundamentals of engineering before the public in the simplest, clearest...
...have taken the liberty of setting forth these details because of the fact that I am eager to have it understood that Collier's could never publish the kind of an article which was brought to your attention. Very truly yours, (Signed) William L. Chenery, Editor...
Having heard that Wynant D. Hubbard, a Harvard graduate, was writing an article for some magazine criticising the method of play of the Princeton football team, I wrote to him to ask him to withdraw his article and to the magazines which I understood might publish it, requesting them not to do so. I thought it might be useful to you to have copies of my letters, which I enclose. The first two concerns I wrote to replied that they should not think of publishing such an article; the third, which is to publish it, I did not hear about...