Word: interpret
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...imperative tasks of our day is to interpret the purposes, methods and results of science in such wise that this greatest adventure of the human spirit may be "understanded of the people." Science needs to be made use of, but understanding of it must precede complete utilization...
...Japanese, Professor Kiyoshi Shiratori, of the Peers' College of Tokyo, lectures on "The Origin of the Japanese Race and the 'Utsutsu-Gami'." Shigeto Tsuru '35 will interpret Professor Shiratori's words which are to be delivered in his native tongue. The place is Emerson 211 and the time 3 o'clock...
...then try to rebuild them again like castles in the air, depends on two things. First, those who testify must be as fair and conscientious in judgment, and as frank and open in offering suggestions, as they possibly know how. Second, the men who write up the reports must interpret the sentiments of the group on the witness stand with accuracy, and must compile the information with clarity and absolute freedom from bias. With such a set-up on the part of both witnesses and recorders, it is to be hoped that the meetings to be held at the Crimson...
What particularly caught the eye in Mr. Douglas's remarks was his effort to interpret the past month's developments on the financial, labor, and judicial fronts in the light of the beginnings of a serious monetary inflation. In view of the measures which the Administration has taken to promote a rise in prices, there can be little doubt that a process of inflation of a mild degree is underway. But with Governor Eccles talking about a balanced budget--a political impossibility--and clinging to rock-bottom interest rates, it will take more than mere "monetary monkey business" to stem...
...Johnson-Thrale group and its domestic difficulties by a rare volume of Boswell's "Life of Johnson" fully and acidly annotated by Johnson's friend Mrs. Thrale, later Mrs. Piozzi. (It was on the occasion of her taking this name that Johnson wrote his famous latter beginning, "If I interpret your letter right, your are ignominiously married...