Word: understood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...guaranteed minimum wages and devotion of a small part of each member's product to common needs, such as farm equipment. Cooperative societies, however, both for marketing the district's product and for securing credit, are universally found throughout the provinces of Russia. The peasant whom Tolstoy believed he understood so well, has rejected Tolstoyan collectivism, but one good result of the feverish uproar of the last six years endures the closer cooperation of the peasant-farmers through local cooperative societies...
...will of Mrs. Susan Greene Dexter, late of Boston, it was announced yesterday afternoon, when the will was filed in the Suffolk Probate office yesterday. Mr. Roland Gray '95 was appointed executor. No definite information has been released as to the probable amount of the bequest, but it was understood last night from reliable sources that the sum involved will in all likelihood reach the hundreds of thousands...
...Lausanne Treaty (TIME, August 6, 1923) left undone one thing that it should have done: the settlement of the Iraq-Turkish boundary.* It was understood that Britain (holding a League of Nations mandate for Iraq) and Turkey were to solve the problem between themselves; and, if agreement were impossible, they were to refer their dispute to the League...
Though no official announcement has been made, it is understood that the ceremony will be deeply impressive...
...made to say: "How far that glawing mazda throws its beams." Since the coming generation will never have seen a candle except as a painful substitute for electricity, ancient authors will have to be brought up to date, or the favorite similies of candles and oil will not be understood. Such parables as that of the foolish virgins, who used up too soon all the oil for their lamps will lose all their significance. "But Mother," the modern precocity will say, "why didn't they get new batteries for their flashlights at the drug store...