Word: misinterpreting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Council would seem to misinterpret the fundamental difference between House and Varsity Athletics. House Athletics are for those who wish to engage in a sport with a minimum of practice and training. Those who take part in House Athletics play for the game's sake and enjoy it. Varsity Athletics, on the other hand, in any sport, are for those who desire to acquire skill through a great deal of practice, training, and personal effort. That there are these two schools of Athletic thought in the college, cannot be denied. To mix them would be ruinous. Cyrns C. Marden...
...Editor Frank had his innings. He said his readers did not need Senator Minton to pasteurize their reading material for them. Taking a long breath he continued: "If, as in his attack on Rural Progress, an officer of Government can use the prestige of his position to malign, misinterpret, and deliberately undertake to cripple or destroy a magazine because not every line in it has agreed entirely with that officer, then every newspaper, every magazine, every business enterprise, every farm, every professional practice in the United States, whose operator is not a cringing...
...good faith will misinterpret these proposals. . . . [The program] is not intended as the beginning of any ill-considered 'trustbusting' activity which lacks proper consideration for economic results. It is a program to preserve private enterprise for profit by keeping it free enough to be able to utilize all our resources of capital and labor at a profit...
Believing that you would not wilfully misinterpret, may I call [the following] to your attention in this week's TIME: You refer to the "President's curt speech" heard by a "tobacco-chewing crowd," etc. The crowd was NOT tobacco-chewing, and it applauded the speech. The honor of the President's visit was thoroughly appreciated. Many of the 50,000 crowd had motored miles that morning to be present and to see the President. Brenau College students and faculty in the foreground can attest what I say. President Pearce of Brenau College praised the speech without...
...picture from the show, stated that his Executive Committee was no jury, but "a department store is a public institution and . . . cannot take part in political controversies; it cannot open to the young and adolescent of the city anything which, in their youth and inexperience, they might woefully misinterpret...