Word: understand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...child, Andrew Carnegie, and his beneficent works; hailing the Mellon brothers, the "distinctly American effort" of the painting exhibition and Andrew Carnegie once more, President Coolidge finished on a note especially pitched for Pittsburgh. "There are still some," he said, "who sit apart, who do not see,, who cannot understand. To them our industrial life is the apotheosis of selfishness. They cannot realize that the rattle of the reaper, the buzz of the saw, the clang of the anvil, the roar of traffic are all part of a mighty symphony, not only of material but of spiritual progress...
...Glasgow. I was coming to a pharmacy, and the pharmacist said to me: 'Mr. Balieff, I was yesterday at your show, but I cannot understand in what language you spoke, and I think if you could speak English well you would earn very big money...
Joseph was a lazy boy who could do nothing better than cut down trees neatly. But, what Uncle Henry, who raised the biggest lettuce heads ever seen in those parts, could never understand, was why Joseph refused to cut down the ash trees. Metabel came to know the reason when she met one day a little green god sitting in the woods and talking to some mice. He preferred ash trees to live under and Joseph knew it. Joseph would never have cut down an ash if St. John Deakan had not come to dinner one night and brought...
...University. In previous years the competition has been held later in the year and has been of longer duration. This year however, it has been decided to make a change in view of the general interest that surrounds the Symphony Hall debates, giving the candidates an opportunity to understand the staging of larger forensic meetings. The successful candidate will become manager in his Senior year...
...been said, was essentially a showman," remarked Fritz Leiber to a CRIMSON interviewer the other day. "I believe that any play of Shakespeare's, even with the small amount of merely suggestive scenery used in his day, could be acted behind a soundproof glass curtain, and the audience would understand it as well or even better than the wordy actionless plays of today, which rely upon witty dialogue for their raison d'etre...