Word: understood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Business men should not run out of the country to avoid court subpenas. (He was understood to refer to Messrs. Blackmer, O'Neil, Osler et alii who were not in the U. S. when they were wanted at the Mammoth Oil Co. trial.) "I regard a fugitive from [court] service as second only to a fugitive from justice." (Applause...
...Milton. In a special interview to a CRIMSON representative, he expounded his views of the University in the purest of English, albeit with a pronounced foreign accent. At the explanations of the reporter, he constantly interjected, "So-so?" and then took the utmost pains to make his statement clearly understood...
Milton Not Understood in Japan...
...teach Milton to my students. There is so much mythology and fine detail which is unintelligible to the Japanese, that it is nearly impossible to teach more than a small amount of Milton's works. I was surprised at how quickly the teacher read 'Paradise Lost' and the boys understood...
Beyond a declaration that France desired the peace and stability of the world, M. Briand said nothing and his policy was identical to that followed by the Herriot Cabinet. It was understood that, inasmuch as M. Briand is shortly to go to London to meet Mr. Chamberlain, he was not opposed in principle to the pact offered by Germany and sponsored by Britain (TiME, Mar. 16, INTERNATIONAL...