Word: interpreting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard. Henry James went to Harvard Law School, was a book reviewer at 22. Repelled by the intense nationalism of Reconstruction days, he deliberately turned his back on the U.S., to test with his own life and talent whether it was possible to live between two cultures, to interpret Americans to the English and the English to Americans, to be in effect a citizen of both countries without being disloyal to either...
...also think that too great latitude is allowed on exchange rates. Under the Keynes-White provisions, a nation may devalue its currency 10%, and then return to present its case for another cut to countries that might want a favorable vote on devaluation for themselves. The banker-critics, further, interpret the Keynes-White provisions to mean that devaluation will be the usual recourse of hard-pressed countries, rather than the last resort...
...Navy did not interpret Title V so strictly. The author of Title V felt that he had been victimized by an old Army game: Army officers had just been too literal, complained literal-minded Senator Robert A. Taft. But no Congressmen wanted to argue that laws are not meant to be strictly observed. Last week a Senate committee conferred with the War Department, agreed to reword Title V to have it make sense...
...With this book," write Charles and Mary Beard, "we bring to a close our many years of cooperative efforts in seeking to interpret the long course of American history." The collaboration it ends is among the most influential in U.S. history...
...cracked continuously and often brutally about the wound chevron in the last war, and of course every Croix de Guerre was "found in a case of French monkey meat," etc., etc. But we meant no disrespect for the chevron or the Croix, and no editors attempted to interpret our gags for the home folks, who were far more interested in what we did than in what we said or thought...