Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Those who found this explanation difficult to understand would have been able to enlighten themselves by perusing the current issue of the Christian Century, wherein Dr. Jefferson discoursed on "Why I Have Found Life Worth Living." Said he: "I came into the world with an indestructible liking for work. This impulse in me to work shows no signs of abating. I have always loved work more than play. ... It is only when I am tremendously busy that my happiness mounts to rapture. And so when I look forward to heaven, it is to me a place of work...
Braille is familiar, but too few people know its history, understand how blind people use it. In 1771, Valentine Haiiy, a Frenchman, saw a troupe of blind beggars performing tricks in the street. Touched by the spectacle, he determined to find some way to aid blind people, some way in which, if they could never see, they might at least learn to read. His method, a system of printing books with embossed letters, was developed and improved by Louis Braille. The code which bears his name is an alphabet in which the letters are represented by raised dots, differing...
These lectures are designed to enable Harvard men to understand the main religious systems and concepts, so that they can intelligently take a position in religion. The lectures are open to members of the University but not to the public. They will be given as follows...
...solution, as he pointed out that "the trouble with America is that the people do not relax and meditate. Each person should forget his immediate worries for 20 minutes a day, and give himself up to a silent, restful consideration of the goal and purpose of life. Do you understand what I mean?" he asked. "Do not think; do not day-dream; meditate...
...political situation in China is not particularly difficult to understand, if one will have the patience to grasp a few facts concerning the history, the size, the huge population, the traditions, the culture, the philosophy, and the pschology of China, and will have the wisdom not to attempt to follow the details of day-to-day developments, as reported concerning persons and places...