Word: interpretive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...culled from the official journal of the League of Nations naval budget figures which indicated that while Great Britain was spending $242,850,711 on her navy, the U. S. was spending $553,378.505. Flaying the W. P. F.'s "confusing statistics haphazardly interpreted," Secretary Adams issued a long statement with tables and diagrams to show relative naval expenditures. The U. S. spent $375,291,828 on its Navy last year, he said, whereas "the British Empire" put out $349.927,670 which did not include naval aviation. He harped on the higher costs of naval construction...
Harvard long ago banished Freshman oppression, hazing, restrictions, caps, and all other evidences of collegiatism. There is no legitimate place in a metropolitan community for that sort of freshman distinction and its concomitant physical outbursts. Conditions do not yet warrant a return of loudly vociferous traditions unless one can interpret the growth of graduate schools as an indication that Harvard College is to be relegated to the preparatory school class...
Harvard authorities have recently signed a four-year contract with West Point calling, as I understand it, for three games to be played at Cambridge and one game to be played at West Point. This being the case, the only way in which one can interpret the CRIMSON editorial is that certain irresponsible undergraduates are advocating that Harvard shall repudiate its contracts...
...therefore with gratitude and pleasure that the Vagabond directs his followers, like Moses, out of the wilderness of scholastic Harvard to the Large Lecture Room in Fogg at 12 today. There Professor Lake will read the Bible as it should be read, and he will interpret it in such fashion that his listeners will wish that his words, like Job's, might be graven in stone...
...deeply needed ; and if it fell to an inordinate memory thus at the beginning sometimes to wound her with abnormal revisionings, it was to become the office of an equally inordinate imagination in the end to turn them, in restitution, to another account ? to select, to reshape, to interpret every adaptable passage in the history of her house, first to foster an extraordinary wish, and at last to sustain a strange unearthly hope...