Word: understood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME is very much appreciated in my home. We look forward to each issue with an interest unequalled by other publications. The other day we found the Postman paused on the doorstep deeply engrossed in a copy. It is understood to be a weekly occurrence. He is now charged with being an enthusiast...
Queen Margherita was the only daughter of the late Prince Ferdinando of Savoy, Duke of Genoa. She exhibited throughout her life a gracious penchant for royal democracy, which the Italian people warmed to and understood...
...course, I do not have access to all of the company with which the Senator from New Jersey seems to be familiar, because as I understood him, he said that it is almost impossible to go into company without some one inquiring as to 'who has the supply?' Well, I have not had that experience, I regret to say, or do say without regret [laughter]; and if the Senator has had that experience and has been in such company he has had an experience which has not come...
When Signer Scialoja, Acting President of the Council, informed Munir Bey that "unanimous" was to be understood as "unanimous except for the votes of either Britain or Turkey, the interested par-ties," the Turks walked out, declaring that they had no authority from Angora to accept such a vote. This action amounted to flouting the League of Nations and the World Court, the latter having ruled that under the Treaty of Lausanne the Council was competent to adjudicate the dispute (TIME...
Then the readers of the Times understood. This "Bum" Rogers was a criminal who happened to make his escape from the train on which he was being taken to prison on the same day that General H. L. Rogers met his demise. Someone on the Times payroll merely failed to distinguish between two individuals. What was the difference? They were both named Rogers. . . . He put the General's "head" on the criminal's cleverness-wrote the history of a gunman's escape under the epitaph of a famous soldier...