Word: understand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...word annulment, both on the card and in the editorial, is misleading. It is well known that the Church on sufficient evidence may declare a marriage null and void from the beginning and therefore no marriage at all. Intelligent readers will so understand the card; but it will as surely mislead and deceive the unintelligent. JOHN J. BURKE, C. S. P. The Living Church's rebuttal: . . . We had hoped that such Roman Catholics, particularly of the American press, as were disgusted . . . would be emphatic in their condemnation, especially if the man has no official position in his Church...
...late George Hearst of California (U. S. Senator 1886-91), who once said: "I don't understand my boy Bill. . . but there's one thing I have noticed about him. When he wants cake he wants it and he wants it now." William Randolph Hearst got into the House of Representatives for two terms (1903-07). His effort to be Democratic nominee for President in 1904 fell flat despite his reputed expenditure...
Taking Senator Borah's attitude of mind towards the deaf and dumb as an index of official Washington, we can well understand why Gallaudet College government supported institution of the higher education of the deaf and dumb, is repeatedly denied the financial support of the government adequate to its sore needs. Even our great national leaders cannot get away from the fallacious conception of the deaf and dumb as social nonentities. . . . They apparently cling to the superstition that the deaf and dumb are inarticulate humans, eking out a miserable existence selling lead pencils on the street corners; or worse...
Having for some time studied Life in England the writer used to think he had a fair understanding of America. Now having studied America for some time, he begins to understand Life...
When the flags fly; as they did Monday for the first time since March, over the two boxlike wings of the high domed Capitol, the people of the U. S. are given to understand their will is being done. Do congressmen understand it that way? They swear they do. But such is the dignity of congressional membership, especially in the Senate, that the popu- lar "you may" is almost inevitably superseded by the congressional...