Word: interpretations
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Americans reserve the right to interpret their reservations. Let us accept, but with the understanding that if the American interpretation proves to be something we cannot accept we will withdraw our acceptance of the United States adhesion to the court...
...simpler words, anyone who attempts to controvert Dr. Julius Klein is presumably ignorant. Dr. Klein does not err about facts. He knows them, knows how to get them and, when found, to reduce them to figures, and knows how to interpret those figures to attentive businessmen. Secretary Hoover brought him from Buenos Aires, where he was U. S. commercial attache during 1919 and 1920, to be his technician, his Ariel. People who think that every Jew is a commercial genius and vice versa every commercial genius a Jew have long believed Dr. Julius Klein a Jew. He is a Republican...
...diehard, militant Fundamentalists, led by Dr. Clarence E. Macartney of Philadelphia, who interpret Holy Writ literally; insist that all Presbyterians shall thus interpret it; and put a candidate into the field to combat a supposed menace to the "historic, blood-bought standards of the Presbyterian Church...
...When foreign students go out with American girls, we and they are closely watched, and often the authorities are kind enough to warn us and them, in some cases, because their acquaintances 'may cause an unhappy marriage.' Seems to me, they interpret the acquaintances of men and women in terms of intermarriage and they don't give any ground for intellectual comradeship...
...hundred or more years ago the outlines of a college education were simple. In the centuries immediately preceding knowledge had not increased at a pace so rapid but that educators could digest, interpret, and relate to previous knowledge the new knowledge as it appeared. But with the nineteenth century the invigorating winds of a new critical and scientific spirit began to blow across the world. The scientific spirit began hunting, blasting, boring, probing, boiling, cooking, and dissecting. Men, animated by the Itch to know, began to dig up, at a disconcerting rate, all sorts of new, facts and new knowledge...