Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Quantum Theory. Some 200 mathematical physicists listened, perhaps none of them with understanding, to the address of Dr. W. Heisenberg, young German, on the quantum theory of the structure of the universe. The quantum theory, as originated three decades ago by Dr. Max Planck, denies the existence of matter, as commonly conceived, replacing it with energy in basic units called quanta. As modified by Dr. Heisenberg, quanta depart entirely from such reality as can be apprehended by the senses, becoming terms in pure mathematics. Like the first few people to understand Dr. Albert Einstein, the Heisenberg enthusiasts agreed that...
When Baby Horace Collins Pitkin grew old enough to understand the answers to his questions, he learned the weight of his father's martyrdom. When he grew old enough to read men's books he read Robert E. Speer's A Memorial of Horace Tracy Pitkin,* which told how the slain man had as a boy been skilled in mechanics, had treated school studies as chores essential to be done in spite of dislike, had for two years of his young manhood been undecided whether to study medicine or theology. He took up religion and, with Sherwood Eddy and Henry...
...This board works in very close co-operation with the Government of the day and the bulk of the money which it is spending at present is being devoted to a campaign of what you very well understand in the New World as publicity...
...other hand, numerous peasants who ardently profess themselves Roman Catholics barely understand a few rudiments of that faith. The result is hopeless confusion in practice, while in theory the Holy See can justly claim a great majority of Mexicans are Roman Catholics and are being deprived of the ministrations of their priests at great risk to their souls...
Disarmament. Anglo-U. S. friendship is a sturdy plant. Let us desist pulling it up to inspect the roots. England is as wholly committed to disarming as the U. S. Let nations simply understand and respect one another's practical requirements.?Sir Arthur Willert of the British Foreign Office, long U. S. correspondent cf the London Times...