Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Liberalism must be promoted in the United States for two purposes," the speaker declared, in introducing his talk on the international situation; "first, to rid freedom of the restraints imposed upon it by the abnormal conditions during the war period; and, second, to help Americans to understand the terrible conditions in Europe. We all know the extent to which personal freedom was restricted in the United States and that we have not yet been freed from this tendency, but few realize the unhappiness, discontent, and hato which are everywhere in Europe today. The economic warfare now being waged in these...
...mother by her son, it may be inferred that the writer's boyhood was made difficult for him by maternal dictatorship. If, on the other hand, someone tells you an anecdote about a youthful episode with a re versed hairbrush, how much more easily will you understand the imagined matricide when you come upon it. The whole thing, in short, boils down to the fairly obvious fact that the author and his work are one and inseparable...
James Harvey Robinson, author of The Mind in the Making: "What do we do in school to help a child to understand himself and his fellowmen in the light of modern psychological discoveries? Of religion and family life nothing critcal must be said. Nor can any fair discussion of the profit system be encouraged for fear of a suspicion of socialistic leanings...
...State Superintendent of Schools of Mississippi has set himself the following year's task: to enumerate the educable children in the state; to codify the school law so that school trustees "can understand it by reading it"; to establish a course of study such that the " principal of a one-teacher school" will know how to teach all eight grades; to establish an average rural term of seven months; to form at least one hundred additional consolidated schools...
...give which was a peculiar mixture of sound morality and worldly sense, and it seems to us that he wrote and thought in very much the same key as the ordinary American of college age today. What, for example, could be more typical than the advice not to understand title-pages too well, lest it smell pedantry...