Word: understood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Austin is a sort of British Ford. The Seven does not, of course, refer to cylinders but to horsepower. The Austin is only 9 ft. 2 in. long, 3 ft. 10 in. wide and weighs only 950 lbs. Production date and price have not been announced, but it is understood that the Austin will sell for less than $500. Financing of the U. S. company will be handled by Bulkley, Vallance & Co., of Manhattan...
...hobo but I have had sufficient contacts with hobos to be surprised at the definition given by you in the footnote page 54, TIME, June 24, for blind baggage. I have always understood the blind baggage to be the narrow forward platform of the foremost baggage or mail car, immediately behind the tender. This is one of the three points at which hobos may attempt a free ride on a passenger or express train, the other two being the roof of a car and the rods...
Bishop Cannon was quick to answer "the statements which have appeared in today's secular newspapers." He wanted it understood, in the first place, that he had been buying securities "on the instalment plan," not gambling. Then he explained that during the last presidential campaign Senator Carter Glass (Va.) telegraphed to him: "For some unexplained reason affidavits have today been placed in my hands relating to alleged stock gambling on margin by you with the late bucketshop firm of Kable & Co. . . . Would you have me promptly deny for you participation in any such transaction? . . ." The Bishop, who said that...
...must, said he, be "clearly and loyally understood that the Catholic religion and the Catholic religion alone is the State religion . . . not merely one of the many tolerated or permitted religions. . . . The Fascist State, both where doctrine and ideas are concerned [should] refuse to admit anything which is not in agreement with Catholic doctrine and Catholic action. For without these the Catholic State could not exist...
Replied Applicant Schwimmer: "Not personally. I understood women are not required to bear arms in the United States...