Word: understand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nerve at the last moment but the boat is overturned by accident and he lets the girl drown. Arrested, he goes though the interminable murder trial full of chicanery and sentiment which is the delight of the American press. He is convicted, and spends his last days trying to understand why he did it, trying to decide whether he was really guilty but finding no clear answer. A poor thing he lived, a poor thing he died...
...life, for, with the exception of England, European universities do not have the college system and hence all the conveniences which usually accrue to such an organization. The want of lodging grew during the War to one of the most difficult questions for students. American students will not easily understand that in 1919-1921 in some countries like Germany. Austria, Poland and Hungary, we had not even food enough for students...
...pornographic writing. Formerly, sex in literature was more or less restricted to intellectuals. Save for an occasional surreptitious exception the literature of the multitudes was as chaste as an Horatio Alger Jr. or a Mary Jane Holmes could make it. Who outside the intelligentsia read Beardsley, Beaudelaise, or could understand the more esoteric work of Whitman...
...words intelligible. Yet those are the things which give amateur dramatics these Piquancy. I liked the play and the close of the second act was really theatrical. Though how the audience could laugh at some of the things they did is more than I can understand. Probably spring had them in its clutches--for Baccardi and Agassiz have as yet remained alienated...
...will, therefore, understand me when I tell you that, prefatory to the important engagements which I have undertaken to fulfill on my journey round the world, I have definitely decided to divest myself of all my property and form an incorporated society which will provide the necessary funds for continuing in the future the publication of the Review of the Churches, issued to the clergy of all communions, as it is now, at a heavy loss to support all movements for church unity and international peace, and further other religious and social ends...