Word: understand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...know nothing of politics or intrigues or roguery, but our opponents are masters of those things. They do not understand any ways but those of the fox, and this brings about misunderstandings on every occasion...
...Washington. The stage manager stepped in front of the curtain. . . . Everyone was to understand that the Countess Cathcart was appearing tonight in person. . . . The play was the story of her own life. . . . She had written it around notes which she had kept . . . herself ... in person. . . . I thank...
...which to build the best manhood. And he would cut all educational systems to fit those patterns. If education does not make for the vitality which predicates that pleasant existance which is devoid of envy. If it does not make for that courage which allows a man to understand his world, if it does not further a sensitiveness to the best in life--which often is the abstract--if the does not effect intellectual probity and curiosity then it has failed. And the world suffers from the unhappiness of ill health, poverty, and an unsatisfactory sex life, the greatest evils...
...first of April the staffs are pretty well complete so that it behooves a man to start in very early if he wishes this sort of work. Some special qualifications are usually required. A man must be a good swimmer, must be able to sail a boat, must understand woodcraft, nature study, and it is usually desirable that be have some experience either camping or as an attendant at some other summer camp...
...late Lampoon-CRIMSON battle which I understand frum uh Lampoon man, was won by th' Lampoon wus one uv them instances where your glad thet they wus a victory at Cambridge. They shud hev staged it last fall, durin th' football season...