Word: interpreting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...final grade of "C plus; too many cuts." The printed regulation stretches to include both these extremes. Each course is free to make its own rules on the number of cuts it will allow its students to take, and each section man can more or less freely interpret those rules. This forces the student to experiment and see how much leeway he can take. He is told that he has "unlimited cuts, as long as his marks are kept up,"; but he usually finds that this concession acts as a boomerang, since his marks won't "keep...
...tendency to interpret Rooselvelt's reelection as providing a carte balance for a "Vigorous" foreign policy; State Department talk about sending warships to England to rescue a handful of Americans who have had fifteen months in which to get out--these are but straws in the wind. The big push for intervention is yet to come. And in this temporary lull the Student Union is hollering for an organized expression of peace sentiment. Using the apt slogan, "No Wilson Promises," it is seeking to dramatize the tragic parables between...
Here is how we interpret Dr. Butler's replies to the Spectator and the American committee for Democracy and Intellectual Freedom...
with more time at their command ... to analyze and interpret...
...disgust with Tchaikowski among many music lovers has little to do with the music itself, but a great deal to do with the way it is played. It is so universally cheapened in the cannonball these days that an accurate performance is become a curiosity. Conductors think that to interpret Tchaikowski means whipping themselves up into a fine poetic frenzy, and loading the music with trite sentimentality. As a result it has sounded cheap and sugar-coated, has rung sour on men's ears, and turned them to music less easily perverted by a conductor's bad taste...