Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...symbol of snowy limestone thrusting skyward for an eighth of a mile. He told how this shaft would be a habitation for the city's students, saying: "The building is to be a cathedral of learning, a great central symbol which makes the heart leap up and understand Pittsburgh. . . . The building and its contents will keep vivid the lives of those who have done good work for Pittsburgh; who, to some memorable degree, have produced music, for example, or built up industry, or extended our knowledge of truth, or interpreted the use and beauty of life or served...
These figures gave point to the speech of James L. Barton, guiding spirit, who said that none can understand the vast scope of the missionary enterprise of this one denomination unless he has seen the far-flung work of its departments of evangelism, education, philanthropy, sanitation and hygiene, literature, industry, uplift of womanhood...
...than a barnacle?responded wittily to their sallies, screwing up his eyes when the sun shone against his face?a very brown face, drawn taut with the whip of sea-salt. "What good is the Cup to America when you have nothing to put in it?" asked he. "I understand the only thing you have left to put in it would burn the bottom...
...dancing were over. Everyone agreed. Now she is going to undertake to pass on her torch. She will open a school in Berlin for children - children of the masses only. She expects about 500 pupils. Some 22 years ago, Miss Duncan first danced in Berlin. The Kaiser did not understand her art. She went to France, looking for liberty. Through the War, she danced the Marseillaise; after the War, she decided that the Marseillaise was not free enough for her. Still seeking the authentic spirit of liberty, she went to Russia. There she danced the Internationale, to her final satisfaction...
...then explained that the Nihilist leaders had hired him to play his piccolo in their parade. Four dollars, he said, would buy his musical services but not his political principles, and he wanted the public to understand his feeling on the matter...