Word: understood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little tug, the Southampton Roadster, left the shore and pushed toward the liner. The tug's deck was crowded with roughly clad men. Were the strikers actually going to attack the leviathan? As the tug came alongside, a line was thrown to her. At last the passengers understood. The bootlegged crew, who had been hidden all night, clambered up the ship's sides and officers rushed them to their posts. The passengers began to cheer and slap each other's backs. "Hurray for the statue of Liberty...
...seven years he has sat serenely on the international powder box. A snapping-jawed, tight-lipped man, he has scared away the rascals. A jovial good fellow with pockets full of laughs, he has out-joked the wily villain. A great seaman, he has understood the fighting...
...understood at the time the note was delivered that the French requested its contents be kept secret for four days more, that the Germans insisted 48 hours was enough...
Brenda had told him at once about kissing Mattocks, in the drive by moonlight. It had given him a twinge but he had understood. Mattocks was a scrawny painter, his fingers jaundiced with cigarettes, his character by egoistic indulgence. Brenda, the sensitive, the humanitarian, had seen he had genius and got one of her "moments". The kiss was to exalt him above drugs and drink to set him to work. It was in no way a betrayal of her husband and children...
Upon what authority Bishop Adam urged his claim to the Archbishopric is not well understood. While disclaiming Bolshevik sympathies, he, a Galician, evidently represents a Pan-Slavic party as opposed to a 100% Russian party...