Word: understood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...understood that the City of Cambridge is about to ask the authorities of this generous University for the use of Memorial Hall as a gymnasium for Cambridge boys and girls. Cambridge has seen that Memorial Hall is vacant and think this would be a good and noble...
...this, a solitary tuft of hair was seen to rise vertically from the otherwise bald pate of Winston Churchill, British Chancellor of the Exchequer. He was amazed at Mr. Kellogg's statement. It had been understood, he said, that the U. S. delegation would sign the agreement (concerning division of the proceeds of the Experts' Plan) before them, and would thereby become active partners in the Experts' Plan. Premier Theunis of Belgium and Finance Ministers Clementel of France and De Stefani of Italy backed the views of Mr. Churchill. "How could the U. S. expect to collect...
...probable that they knew that their owner, Earl Spencer, had died; but even if they did, they could not have understood. Death, for those who derive their being from the paint of Master Artists, is a phenomenon hardly less comprehensible than change. Yet there was the fact, the Earl was dead and change was upon them. All this...
...names of the members of the committee which is to consider this recommendation have not yet been announced, but it is understood that the University authorities have already begun a serious consideration of instructors eligible to succeed Professor Baker in his dramatic work at Harvard. Among those who have been mentioned for this post, it is reported, is Walter Prichard Eaton '00, a Harvard graduate, who has won fame as a dramatic critic...
...This occasion does not mark the beginning of a new administration, but rather the resumption† of that which was inaugurated in this chamber two years ago. It is well understood, I am sure, that it is my purpose to continue, as I am convinced it is the desire of my state that I should, insofar as changing conditions will permit, the program and policies then launched. . . ." The whole ceremony took only 16 minutes...