Word: understand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...order that members of Congress may understand that the forces opposing the Wyatt housing program and the OPA are those of vested interest, it is imperative that every veteran let them know the opinion of the common citizen, which, I am convinced is overwhelmingly in favor of these measures," Roosevelt declared...
...strawberry-blond, and handsome, is a specialist in Elizabethan tragedy and modern poetry. Dressed in tweed jacket, grey flannels and loud bow tie, he grips his lectern and recites poetry in a flowing, resonant voice and a Philadelphia accent improved in Britain. Characteristic advice to students: to understand James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, "lie on your bed, hold the book over you, and let the words just pour down." Next year, to the two courses he now teaches to Harvard and Radcliffe students, he will add English V-the Boylston course in creative writing, limited to 20 select students...
Recommendations: 1) Substitute a Roman alphabet for the more than 50,000 Chinese-derived picture-characters of written Japanese. Though newspapers employ fewer than 4,500 characters, even educated Japs have to use dictionaries to understand them all, and uneducated Japs have trouble with anything more than the headlines (the average citizen of Tokyo knows 600 characters; the average rural Jap 325). Beginning Jap schoolchildren spend 17 out of 22 classroom hours a week in a struggle to master 1,356 characters-time, said the mission, "that might be devoted to the acquisition of . . . useful linguistic and numerical skills...
...proposed new alphabet would probably encounter scattered Jap resistance. When the U.S. Army commissioned Tokyo University's Professor Shuhei Ishiyama to compile a democratic teaching manual in simple characters, Jap educators protested that they would lose face if ordinary schoolteachers could understand the whole book...
...know my life and character," Dickens wrote to a friend, "and . . . you may understand that the intense pursuit of any idea that takes possession of me is one of the qualities that makes me different, sometimes for good, sometimes, I dare say, for evil, from other men." But Mrs. Dickens was bewildered by her passionate husband's avid pursuit of the moment. She found it hard to understand how he could give away to uncontrollable grief on hearing that a friend had died, and a few hours later enter into amateur theatricals with uncontrollable guffaws...