Word: understood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...addresses, with few exceptions, were extremely technical, which was what the engineers desired and understood. They also understood the less technical language of Dwight F. Davis...
...Calles started life as a school teacher and was for 17 years a persuasive pedagog. In the exercise of his profession, he was imbued with some of that idealism that lit the soul of the late ex-President Woodrow Wilson. But in Mexico of that day he was not understood. From the position of Mayor of Fronteras, the proud Mexican aristocrats forced him. Not a public office was open to him. This drove him to the "soap-box"; and his so-called Radical speeches inflamed the workers to red-hot enthusiasm for him, his enemies to bitter hatred...
Plays from the English Townoley cycle of miracle plays were given by the Dramatic Club last year under similar circumstances. This year's play is understood to have a much more ecclesiastical atmosphere and to contain less coarseness than the English plays...
Twenty men were retained in the first of these groups, which is understood to include the more likely material, with the possible exception of a few men who were prevented from practicing with Group I because of conflicting college engagements...
...understood that the book was written with the help of suggestions from Coach Cowles of the University squash racquets team. The title page of the volume states that it is dedicated to the "Harvard Athletic Association in general and to W. H. Geer in particular for their work in securing facilities for playing squash racquets at Harvard University." As published by the Crimson Printing Company, the book has 46 pages and 14 illustrations and will sell...