Word: understand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This Ingersoll lecture will not be like its predecessors." Mr. Philip Cabot '91 told a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. "They have been delivered by scholars and addressed to scholars," this one will be delivered by a plain man, not too old to understand how younger men feel, with a view to meeting the questions in regard to immortality which naturally arise in young men's minds...
...association, as I understand it, gathered together for the better enforcement of the law. Now just what is it we mean by the law? . . . It is very easy to enact legislation. We have State Legislatures and the National Congress, that each year put upon the statute books of our country thousands upon thousands of different enactments undertaking to regulate and control our conduct. . . . I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement. It is a maxim of our institutions that the Government does not make...
...minor scene occurred when Mr. Masterman, Liberal, made a request for information to Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden. The Chancellor thought the request offensive and said: "My right honorable friend can understand from the answer exactly what his intelligence enables him to apprehend." Thereupon loud cries of "Withdraw!" rent the air. The speaker said he did not think the question was offensive and the Opposition (Conservative) and Liberal cries turned to cheers...
...were President," said Senator Copeland, "I would call together a group of businessmen who understand conditions ... for the reestablishment of trade and the return of Happiness everywhere...
...This state, of affairs in Harvard if I understand it, is particularly significant being, as it is, a reflection of the attitude of the American people. The most frightful thought to us in England is that you Americans seem not to release that you are the dominant nation of the world, and that from now on it is your thoughts and your institutions that will guide those of Europe...