Word: misunderstands
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...relief of needy students. Yet there is no question of shame or obligation attached to the process. In fact, it is particularly gratifying that the University administration is taking this measure to enable deserving students to continue their education. To construe this as assuming an obligation is to completely misunderstand the motives of the N.Y.A...
...there is a negative constructiveness which interested parties tend to misinterpret, if they are clever; misunderstand, if sincere. If drinking threatens the life of a man, it is constructive to make him stop. Thus, if reckless spending promises to undermine the integrity of the government, it is constructive to make it stop. If men plan to tear down a perfectly good house, which merely needs a new heating system, it is constructive to make them stop. Thus, if the Administration wants to wreck many of the principles on which the United States operates, it is constructive to stop them...
...reader misunderstand TIME'S reference to "routine singers," by which was meant members of the ensemble, who are paid $85 a week minimum. Leading performers in San Carlo receive $250 to $500 a week, while guest stars have been paid as high as $1,200 a performance (Maria Jeritza...
...wish to know what my act consists of? Well, singing. . . and dancing. . . and. . . (here Miss De Shone made a mute but expressive gesture toward her shoulder straps) No, until the censors came there was no limit to my act. . . Oh, now don't misunderstand me; I think there is a limit to everything, but in this case I was my own censer...
...short address Bates made what were taken by the audience to be indirect references to the Norfolk investigation. Upon one occasion he remarked that, "Penologists are handicapped, at every turn, by the fickleness of public opinion, and by what seems to be almost a deliberate attempt to misunderstand the new ideas of penology." This remark closely followed by another, that, "Prisons appear to be the biggest, shiniest target in the world. Anything that goes wrong is fair meat for almost anybody. A penologist's life, if I may borrow from Gilbert and Sullivan, is not a happy one." And again...