Word: understood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then the election was held. Unaccountably, most unaccountably, Daniel F. Steck, Mr. Brookhart's Democratic opponent, led in the early returns. Still more unaccountably, he led in the later returns. Mr. Brookhart went to bed admitting his defeat and remarking that the electorate of Iowa had not understood the issues...
...several months before election, no one understood future business probabilities because nothing was happening. Since election, there has been equal doubt and ignorance, but for the opposite reason-that too much was happening...
...they are doing if they have a little more to say at the top in the conduct of home affairs. Conditions in the country are not really half as bad as the newspapers have tried to make them out to be. The trouble is that India has not been understood quite right politically in the last quarter of a century, but it is too late to talk of that now. All the people want is a bigger share in the home Government and they will...
...English women who have gone out there have never understood the native side of the question and have caused a good deal of trouble for the officials of all ranks. There is a little unrest on the Northwest frontier as usual, but it was not very serious when I left India...
...terms of recognition were virtually negligible. It was understood by the two Governments that neither should interfere in the domestic affairs of the other. As, according to the Russian Government, the Communist (Third) Internationale is in no way connected with the Government, the latter will, of course, not be responsible for the dissemination of propaganda in France by the Internationale...