Word: misunderstand
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...sure no one in this room will misunderstand me for a moment when I say that I believe that a great deal of the credit, if credit there was, that was due to the negotiators for the rapidity with which that great question was solved, arose from the fact that neither the Governor of the Bank of England, nor I, nor Mr. Mellon, had ever at any stage of our lives been members of the legal profession...
...majority of the professors realize this; yet there are those who either refuse to accept or else misunderstand their present position. Too many undergraduates this year have had their final marks lowered because the professor felt that their slack attendance was sufficient cause for "discipline"--because he refused to recognize the fact that the responsibility for their collegiate behavior was no longer in his hands. It is disheartening, to say the very least, after passing a course fairly, and with no summons from the Office, to have one's grade lowered at the insistence of an instructor who considers that...
...social distinctions, and the intolerant, glib exegesis that has naturally followed. Our guilty conscience has not been due to any secret lamentation and outward enthusiasm for such signs, but rather to the feeling that our fathers may have sufficiently detached themselves from the pulse of student life to misunderstand the proclivities for such things as we see them. And it is with this in mind that I am venturing to suggest some real facts as they are seen by one who has been in close relation with the students during the time of cataclysmical change...
Aside from the more practical objections, some of us feel that the tendency to make the public more and more an item of first consideration in University exercises is doing us all a good deal of harm. The public might misunderstand the spirit of our fellowship as thoroughly as they have misunderstood the spirit of our sport...
Sanders, the right halfback is apt to misunderstand signals and runs too high with the ball. He is, however, one of the best tacklers on the team...