Word: understand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...made about the McKenna duties (TIME, May 11), and that all he sought to do was to revert to the status quo ante and to brand Mr. Snowden's repeal of those duties (TIME, May 12, 1924) as a purely partisan action. Mr. Snowden retorted: "I can well understand that the Chancellor of the Exchequer is incapable of understanding that any person can be moved by honest political convictions." (Torrents of protest from the Government side of the House, loud cries of "withdraw.") Mr. Snowden retorted: "I will follow Mr. Churchill's example and withdraw nothing." Some time...
...President of Cornell University: "Overspecialization. . . . I mean spending so much time on the mechanics of steam engines that we have no time left for studying the mechanics of life. . . . It breaks the country up into different groups. Each group has an absolutely different point of view. They fail to understand each other. This creates animosity and ill will. It is said that if the Germans had not devoted all their time and energy before the War to specialization, they would not been so blind as to have started . . . . We are just beginning to the effects of this over-specialization...
...older English universities are still socially run in a way difficult for Americans to understand. Their members all belong to, or aspire to, a ruling class. Their freshmen have received a secondary education that puts them some eighteen months ahead of ours. No one works his way through Oxford or Cambridge. Almost everyone can look forward to a safe future. Leisure is thus essential in preparation for a life in which struggle is tempered by privilege. All this is perhaps changing; but in comparison with Harvard it will long the true...
...possible, he avoided reference to France's U. S. and British debts. He said that he was engaged in preparing the 1926 budget (the 1925 budget is still before the Senate) and that he aimed to produce one "which will be absolutely sound, as you English and Americans understand the word, which will meet every expenditure out of taxation and produce an impression of absolute sincerity." That, he said, was France's and his immediate task...
...case and pleasure, for self-expression, for security, for adventure, for popularity. Economics follows up in detail the consequences of men's desire for wealth. Philosophy traces the results of our desire to know ultimate truth. Biology tells us what will happen, if we yield to our urge to understand living matter. So it is with each great branch of study. Each acquaints us with the results of human desire in a particular field. Social ethics compares all these desires and traces their results so far as is necessary for a man to orient himself among them and to decide...