Word: understand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...views expressed in 1923 in a press conference: "There is no change in the American policy, which, as I understand it, is awaiting evidence of the existence of a government there that, in accordance with our standards, would warrant recognition ; one that has such a form and has adopted such policies that we should be warranted in saying to the American people this is a government, that meets these standards and these requirements, and you will be justified in making commitments accordingly, and expecting, when these commitments are made, the usual support of your own government...
...have to know anything about tennis to understand it. Even as a generality, the crux of a vague plot, you must recognize in that moment the nice opposition of tensions and sympathies that make any situation either rococo or sublime. Here is a great champion. For six years he has held sway over the whole world, and if he succeeds for the seventh year he will equal the legend left behind by the greatest champion* before him. More than that, he knows that the confidence of his countrymen rests in his prowess, for he opposes a man from another nation...
...must be a thinking being. Nothing so departs from the norm of thinking as the quick adherence to futile and fanciful phenomena. With an open mind the member of the Class of 1930 who is to remain a real member of Harvard University must not alone work to understand what is given him from authority, he must weigh the value of authority. He must choose among authorities. In short, he must think. Yet always he must remember that the perverse, the peculiar is the prerogative of genius alone. And the numerical constituency of genius is small in this country...
...desk, pensively caressing his pointed beard. Towards him from the door, assisted by gendarmes, staggered a woman, gurgling unintelligible things out of a blood-slavered mouth. Prefect Gueulechien listened attentively. He recognized the woman as a Mme. Jaquin, a Belgian lately released from the jail. But he could not understand her. Peering closely, he perceived that her tongue had been cut out, evidently with a sharp knife, close to the root. He frowned. It would be a vexing investigation, for the Jacquin woman could neither read nor write, and her friends were few. Her late jail sentence had been...
...happens that Mr. Wells will be 60 next Tuesday. It happens that his character, William Clissold, enunciates a prodigious amount of Wellsian philosophy. But the "vulgar" reader and reviewer are asked to understand that the book is not Mr. Wells' autobiography, but William Clissold's. The latter is merely a "relative" of Mr. Wells, a mineralogist whose promoter-father committed suicide on the way to prison, leaving the mother free to remarry and the boys, William and Dickon Clissold, to make their own lives...