Word: understand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such being the basis for definite progress toward world peace, the news from Geneva during the past two days has aroused the almost forgotten fears of those who were sanguine. It is difficult to understand the Japanese in their opposition to the proposed protocol of arbitration and security. At bottom their contention centers around the immigration question. Japan refuses to bind it self to accept a possible decision by the World Court that immigration is exclusively within another country's domestic jurisidiction. The clause to which she objects would outlaw a disputant country refusing to accept such decision. M. Adachi...
...adopted the accurate sobriquet, Unity, and spent her life trying to make it fit. She married a man, Brian Jessup, who went in swimming drunk, at midnight, in Sidney, Australia. She married an automaton, Michael Lord Mowbray, of whom she felt she was unworthy because he could not understand her. But only Adrian Gore, the man with the grey eyes, could give her Unity. This book is the elegant elaboration of a somewhat frayed psychological formula. It fails to convince because the author attempts to show how a human doll works by manufacturing instead of analyzing one. It does...
...Forum for October, one George Henry Payne reported a conversation which he had had with a foreigner whom he called "Mr. Gonegaga" : GONEGAGA: "There is Mr. Hearst's morning American. I understand that thoroughly. The international bankers have taken away all the money from the people and yet-and that is what puzzles me-the people seem happy. How is that?" PAYNE: "Very simple. The international bankers have not taken absolutely all the money-they have left the plain people a small amount, but enough to buy Mr. Hearst's three New York papers, his two Chicago papers...
This course, given under the auspices of the Graduate School Society and the Harvard Christian Association, proposes to offer men of the University general information in religion analogous to that given in such courses as Philosophy A and Government 1. It is designed to enable Harvard men to understand the main religious systems and concepts, particularly those involved in the present controversy in the Churches, so that they can intelligently take a position in religion...
Just why this silent opposition persists is difficult to understand. It may be a native distrust of the strange and new, or it may be an unconscious relie of the conventional Victorian point of view toward anything and everything in the slightest way connected with the stage. Both very nearly approach the ridiculous. When the drama has reached a point in its development where its legimacy as a means of artistic expression has been universally recognized, for some hundreds of years, he can be no better than a fool who denies the same legitimacy to a study of the mechanical...