Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these wages increased by the cutting of prices. Theoretically this procedure was simple, sound. It was as simple and as sound as "daylight saving." But some skulls will not comprehend that a day is the same, no matter what the hours are called. Similarly some Italians could not understand last week that it makes no difference what a man's wage or profit is, so long as he can buy the same amount of goods or labor for it. Quite naturally there was discontent because this thing was hard to understand, and there was trouble because it was hard...
...candidate has any genuine interest in any special field; it concludes with the general question "Is it your great desire and ambition to go out and do things, letting others search for the why and wherefore, or would you prefer for the next four years to try to understand the things that others are doing?" He sums up with the shrewd inquiry, "Do you want to make a living or a life?" His judgment is that the desire to "make a living" will find no satisfaction in a college education...
...sincerely trust that the difficulty in regard to the 1928 Harvard football schedule is ironed out satisfactorily. We heartily agree with the Crimson authorities that the Brown game is too difficult and too important to come between two other big contests. However, we are somewhat at a loss to understand how Harvard can risk even a temporary break in a rivalry of forty-three year's standing merely to rearrange her own schedule so that it includes another "big" game with an institution which the Crimson has not played since 1909-The Brown Herald...
...McGuffey was not interrupted in her prayer by the hoofbeats of a horse that was approaching. Moreover, the dust so muffled the hoofbeats that the horseman, a clergyman who had just founded the Old Stone Academy, could distinctly hear every word Mrs. McGuffey said. Pausing long enough to understand thoroughly, he rode softly off to the next cabin, learned Mrs. McGuffey's name, rode back, answered her prayer...
...work, Author Morand allows readers to see him, a suave and casual Prospero, waving a wand which resembles a swagger stick. He wishes readers to understand how little effort it has caused him to be referred to as the polished Parisian diplomat, as the brilliant, the famed, the witty author of Ouvert la Nuit, Fermé la Nuit and many a shorter turn in the smartest smart-charts...