Word: understand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with the Foreign Office officials have been most gratifying. On both sides, every problem has been approached with a spirit of frankness, tolerance and under standing of the position of each of our countries. We have not always agreed, and will not in the future, 'but at least we understand each other, and have been and will be able to discuss our differences, our international and world problems frankly with a mutual desire for adjustment. The greatest hope for the future relations of our countries is a better knowledge of each other...
...spirit and to do a Good Turn, and what is their reward? Only as ever, knocks, harsh criticism! I tell you, it is mighty discouraging. But I know that Mr. King and other members of the Business School who are laboring under the same misapprehension will, now that they understand the fine motives which inspired the Lampoon to this beneficent act, be more than ready to rescind their criticism and counter with gratitude to their benefactors. Talbot Wegg...
...Business, as well as the family organization, is solely to provide opportunities for being disagreeable. Those opportunities are multiplied if there is in the family a young man, fresh from college, who knows all about business and everything else. The only way for a father and son to understand each other is for them both to realize that not honesty, but ill humor, is the best policy...
...could see no other work more worthy of his effort. "Years ago," says Roscoe Pound, "I deliberately devoted myself to legal education, legal research, and endeavor by teaching and writing to promote the most effective administration of justice." That he says, is work which he was come to understand. It is work which he cannot now desert...
...legal education, legal research, and endeavor by teaching and writing to promote the most effective administration of justice. That work is at least scarcely less important than the work which is to be done as President at Wisconsin. Moreover, it is a work that I have come to understand. I do not feel justified, on mere grounds of personal inclination toward life in the West and in a Western academic community, in deserting something that I had definitely taken up as my life task...