Word: understand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sure you would not care to make such obvious misstatements. . . . You can readily understand that they would cause a great deal of confusion in the minds of not only the members of this Organization, but of the world at large. GRACE W. BROSSEAU...
...Right Reverend Bishop James Edward Cowell Welldon, 72, Dean of Durham, onetime (1892-98) Chaplain in Ordinary to Queen Victoria, Headmaster of Harrow School (1885-98), Bishop of Calcutta and Metropolitan of India (1898-1902), translator of various works of Aristotle: "It is difficult for me to understand how educated men and women can find pleasure in hunting and killing animals...
...North American businessmen must realize that greater efficiency is needed in foreign trade than in domestic. There must be' built up what is now entirely lacking?a North American personnel eager to go to foreign fields which will understand the social and cultural life and language of Latin America as well as the business facts. North Americans must learn that building foreign trade is an art?and that art is long...
...thing I cannot understand. How can you always be here, not only on time but some-times several hours ahead, while you?" and he glared at the expensive parquet and balcony? "with automobiles and every convenience in the world, are utterly unable to do the same thing...
...along this same general trend that Mr. Aswell continues to work--this time in search of a remedy for melancholia. And, if he reaches a conclusion which although more intelligent is essentially no more correct than that of most of his predecessors it is not because he does not understand his material. Where he fails--in explaining "student suicide"--and there will be those who will deny that he has failed --is in his segregating a student from the general classification of youth. Education, however profound, however inspiring, can never hope to cope with the vagaries of the adolescent mind...