Word: understood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mention the Kindness of the French Ladies to me. I must explain that matter. This is the civilest Nation upon Earth ... If 'tis understood that you like Mutton, dine where you will you find Mutton. Somebody, it seems, gave it out that I lov'd Ladies; and then everybody presented me their Ladies (or the Ladies presented themselves) to be embrac'd, that is to have their Necks kiss'd. For as to kissing of Lips or Cheeks, it is not the Mode here: the first is reckon'd rude, and the other...
...that Yardlings should be prepared to pay an undetermined amount to see this year's entertainment. As usual, the committee may run afoul of the Cambridge Liquor Licensing Board--this time over selling alcoholic beverages to minors. The Board has no objections to drinks being given away, it is understood...
Ultimately, Buber applies the I -Thou idea to man's meeting with God, whom he calls the "Eternal Thou." This confrontation, says Philosopher Friedman, is "perhaps best understood from the nature of the demand which one person makes on another if the two of them really meet . . . If you are to meet me, you must become as much of a person as I am . . . In order to remain open to God [man] must change in his whole being...
Reynaud, of course, like all French politicians, has always been right. He is a brilliant self-advocate, but has never understood that politics is the art of the possible, not the plausible. On his own showing, he won every argument including the last one-with the SS colonel who locked the door on his cell at Oranienburg concentration camp. Colonel: "The Russians would have shot you long ago." Reynaud: "I did not know that you took them as mentors...
Several members of the Committee, appointed by the Board of Overseers, said that they understood the entire question of the Houses would come under discussion, particularly which features of the present Houses will be retained in the proposed addition, and which could be dispensed with...