Word: misunderstanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...department. Longer hours would be a convenience but no more. To an impartial judge, neither a communistic member of the Liberal Club nor a militarist, it would seem a very costly convenience if it required doing away with preparation for self-defense as carried on at Harvard. Don't misunderstand me. If it were a question of maintaining the military and naval courses or of keeping the library open a reasonable length of time I would say, "Do away with the military, as Harvard is not, after all, a military school." But this is not the question. As I understand...
...when it rejected such a successful leader for a second term. A Strother news item : President Hoover planned to call a White House conference on ''The Use of Leisure Time" but never publicly announced it for fear a country suffering from an excess of involuntary leisure might misunderstand and mock...
...generally the hall mark of a live institution that criticism comes from within. Such certainly is the case in the Harvard Division of Fine Arts. Here, criticism occurs because both the professors, collectively, even if not individually, and their critics misunderstand the two-fold nature of a study of the Fine Arts...
...speech over which President Hoover had worked for weeks. "In accepting the great honor you have brought me." the President began in his plodding, somewhat mournful voice, "I desire to speak so simply and so plainly that every man and woman who may hear or read my words cannot misunderstand (Real applause). Hurricane. "The past three years have been a time of unparallelled economic calamity. . . . Before the storm broke we were steadily gaining in prosperity. . . . Being prosperous...
...Pope or the King with virtual impunity throughout Italy so long as one employs suave and gentlemanly terms. But even to utter the word "Mussolini" aloud in a public place causes consternation. Members of the English-speaking colony at Rome take no chances that an Italian might misunderstand them to be speaking ill of Il Duce. Shrewd, they generally refer to Benito Mussolini in public conversation as "Mr. Smith" or "Aunt...