Word: understand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...novel is semiautobiographical, as its publishers hint darkly, then one can understand the author's readiness to be as garrulous in recalling his wounds of the spirit as an old soldier describing the carnage at Appomattox. That the book is carefully written?and perhaps for that reason especially appreciated by Britons, now in rebellion against the loose writing of the day-there is no doubt. But there is the feeling of words too long sought, too painstakingly chosen. For example a stream "wimples...
...Before one can understand the Mexican situation one must face the problems of Mexico" Frank, Tannenbaum, economist, educator, and prison expert, told a Crimson reporter yesterday. Mr. Tannenbaem had been in Mexico for over a year and returns to lecture on the problems of Mexico with the endorsement of that country's council general. "And before one can understand the relationship between Mexico and Nicaragua one had to understand that all the problems of Mexico are the problems of both Central and south America...
...Mexico to study conditions there. There are young men are women there from Peru and Argentina. They seek inspiration. In studying the problems of Mexico they are facing their own problems, problems of religion, race, land distribution. Mexico's influence in Latin America is great because the people there understand what she is doing. Her influence in Central and South America will be what the influence of the French Revolution, was to contemporary Europe...
...will readily understand that under the conditions, when we must go to our friends and the public for financial support in order to rebuild Main Hall; it is a serious matter to us to give out the impression that our loss is entirely covered by insurance. May I ask, therefore, that you kindly correct this error in your next issue? If you will oblige us by granting this request and place your correction in a prominent position in your magazine so that it will be noticed and read by most of your readers we shall greatly appreciate...
...bore, an embarrassment or a blessing. Or all three. Shirley Challoner, a blessing, would never have writ ten this book. Authoress Colby is sometimes tiresome, sometimes embarrassing, yet she created Shirley Challoner and the "green forest." The whole point of the book is to delight people who can understand that "Debussy is the wettest music ?passion done in silver point," and similar subtle apperceptions. Yet between subtlety and forced fancy even "understanding" readers will detect many a disheartening difference. The girl's face "banged shut." About babies: "There might be sky-blue ones, or indigo ones, or even some...