Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...help Europe's future leaders to help themselves is the stated purpose of the Student Friendship Fund as I understand it," said Edward A. Filene of William Filene and Sons yesterday, when he was asked to make a statement about the drive for $5000 which is now being carried on in all departments of the University...
...right of each individual to make his own bargain--many employers have tried and some have succeeded in putting through just such an open shop. Probably Mr. Bullard means some compromise between the two. Such compromises do exist but they exist either because the employers and employees understand each others' motives or because the unions in those industries are not strong enough to enforce any other condition. Shop committees are unsatisfactory in that they rarely produce capable leaders and cannot make agreements which will extend over a wide field. And Mr. Bullard's arguments for the buttress which public opinion...
...variation and the mechanism of the germ-cell he knew little. But whether or not species originate as Darwin thought they did, this "grandest generalization of the 19th century"?the continuous relation of all species to pre-existent life ?is an incontrovertible fact. Many laymen do not understand the scientific spirit which calls for constant revision of accepted theory in the light of new facts, but the discarding of unverified hypotheses does not argue lack of confidence in the methods of science...
Edith Galt Wilson. " 'She's handsome in a heavy way but her face sags.' . . . Democrats, no doubt, see her comeliness and Republicans note the sag. ... If Mrs. Wilson doesn't exactly speak the Woodrow Wilson language, she at least seems to understand it. ... Have you ever noticed how Mrs. Wilson always managed to draw into the background a little and so give the impression that the President is perceptibly taller, which, of course, is not the case. . . . She was proud to be Mrs. Woodrow Wilson but she didn't want to wear the dome...
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., Assistant Secretary of the Navy: "One Fred B. Smith called me a 'young fop at a meeting of the Citizens' Committee of 1,000 in Manhattan. Said he: 'I understand he is wet as the Atlantic Ocean, and if the young fop tries any of that business in New York he may rest assured that we will teach him the law as satisfactorily and with as much emphasis as his father would have done.' Federal Prohibition Commissioner Haynes and Bishop William T. Manning were among those seated on the platform...