Word: understood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...facts before you. J. W. LEECH Leech & Leech Attorneys at Law Ebensburg, Pa. Anna Komarmicka, Chicago milliner, had last spring gone to visit her sick father in Poland. Later, in Paris, her permit to re-enter the U. S. was stolen. From the U. S. Consul at Paris she understood that she would have no trouble at Ellis Island. Nevertheless, she was ordered "excluded." TIME erred in saying that she was ordered "deported." She was admitted to the U. S., but with an order of exclusion pending against...
...Imperial Conference of Empire Premiers rose last week after accomplishing little more than to define (TIME, Nov. 15) the well- understood but heretofore tacit interrelation between the Dominions and the Mother Country...
...must be understood that these increasing records are only relative to the amount of business accomplished on the Stock Exchange floor. Thus, in 1914 the daily trading averaged 460 000 shares and a seat was worth $94,000, or 20? a share. This year the daily trading has averaged 1,548,460 shares, which (at the 20? rate) would make a seat worth $309,700. At $170,000 the cost of daily trading is about 11? a share...
...must believe that sanity and sight lie in numbers, and certainly he did not see or think as did any other man of his time. He saw the spirit in the body, shapes of the mind in every earthly shape. Only a few saints and mathematicians have understood as he did; they, too, were mad. Heads in which a cone is buried; elongated muscles and loins growing up through the paint in mystery like weeds or flowers; skies that break, trees that kneel, faces and hands and walls that tilt with some interior volition- these he painted. To describe...
...dream. We have recently seen the degree of modern opportunism liable to be reached by a church which allows itself to become politically minded. . . . [The annulment] is an insult, whether calculated or not, to an old communion to which we are proud to belong." The charge of opportunism is understood to be a reference to the suspicion that Rome desires another English duke in the fold. For many years all England's 26 dukes, save only the Duke of Norfolk (Roman Catholic), have been Anglicans...