Word: understand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...order to better understand this term and the cause for its usage, I would like to question the editorial staff of TIME as to the origin and present application of the term "greaser...
...plan: to restore prosperity, let a Government bank buy $10,000,000,000 of Government bonds from the public and put a lot of money into circulation. Attentively the President and his monetary advisers listened, politely showed the old gentleman out. Then the Press was given to understand in no uncertain terms that the President was doing homage to age, not dallying with Mr. Owen's inflation idea...
...Cherington states: "The Critic does not presume, as Mr. Wade implies, to the arrogant undertaking of teaching Harvard men to think." I am glad, but then I cannot understand why the Critic editorial should contain these words: "To teach how to think and what to think about. . .' Idealistically the existence of the Critic is a tacit plea for this...
...critical analysis of the existing system suggests a possible method of reform. Effective guidance requires the existence of a permanent group of men who are young enough to stimulate the interest of the Freshmen, and who can understand their point of view. If possible, they should be instructors who have recently graduated from Harvard, and who are well acquainted with University courses, language requirements, conditions of probation, and the general curriculum of the College. Not more than ten men should be assigned to each advisor. Furthermore, they should be adequately paid for their time, either through an increase in salary...
...ordinary radio. Publicly he explained that Alpha's repertory of answers consisted of 20 or 30 recordings on wax cylinders, as in oldtime phonographs, which were run off in the control cabinets and reproduced from the loud speaker in the robot's chest. Alpha cannot really understand language, but he can respond to a variety of set questions the answers to which have been prepared in advance...