Word: conveys
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...DEAR MR. WENDELL:- We of the Cambridge University Athletic Team feel that we cannot leave the shores of America without seeking to convey to you and through you to the graduates of Harvard University, our most sincere thanks for the great kindness and hospitality you have extended...
Many young actors fail without understanding why. They complain that they play their best roles and no one comes. The fault is not with the roles, but with themselves. The tones of the actor's voice and his manner must convey to the audience a clear understanding of the lines...
...against what seems to me an injustice done to the Harvard correspondent of the Boston Advertiser by Professor de Sumichrast's communication of yesterday and by the editorial in the CRIMSON. However unfortunate in its effect the Advertiser report may have been, I do not see how it could convey to an unprejudiced reader any impression of malicious or dishonorable intent on the part of the reporter. As a matter of simple justice to the gentleman who has been so attacked, I wish to quote the article in question; for I think that a calm and unprejudiced reading...
least, of the inflections of ordinary speech, we cannot help feeling as we follow the dialogue that the words do actually convey ideas. There may be other ways of accomplishing the same appreciation of the language, but in our methods of education they are not easily manageable, so that it is almost through dialogue alone that we can produce this impression...
Many of the prayers and hymns of the Episcopal Church are in words that convey the deepest meaning that is in the power of language, and if we consider carefully what we say we think it is not possible that we should be sincere. If we cannot be, it is more than useless to repeat these prayers and phrases that are only so many empty words. It hurts ourselves and it hurts the Church. We can bring ourselves, however, to say these prayers and to mean them by comparing our own very imperfect lives with the life of Christ...