Word: understandingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seem to understand why you should put all of the smaller towns on this map of Alaska. . . . ARNOLD MARTINS...
...inimitable. And yet, if I understand the new system which has revolutionized the method of instruction since I was at Harvard, Copey was one of its pioneers. Thirty years ago he was already acting on the assumption that teaching is not the handing down of knowledge from a platform to an anonymous mass of note-takers, but that it is the personal encounter of two individuals. Those appalling clinches in Hollis, those dreaded exposures in the class room, the searching intimacy from which all protection was removed, were in fact a continuing demonstration against mass instruction and the regimentation...
...didn't exactly look at it that way," said Alice pretending to understand and trying to be polite...
...indignation from the large number of students who are bound to be disappointed will ring loud and unmistakable throughout the Yard. Although the prospect of becoming one of the "forgotten men" of Little and Claverly will naturally alarm rejected applicants, they will do well to make an effort to understand the conditions before racing indignantly wild-eyed to a group of unfortunate men who would like nothing better than to make every student of Harvard College a member of the House Plan...
...LEWIS is a young English poet whose name is always mentioned nowadays with those of Spender and Auden, and to understand his poetry and in fact the aims of the group with which he is associated, the reader ought to turn to the manifesto, "A Hope for Poetry," published separately in England, but reprinted here together with the longish works, "Transitional Poem," "From Feathers to Iron," and "The Magnetic Mountain." The last is easily the best and it illustrates most nicely the sort of poetry which one may reasonably expect hereafter from Mr. Day Lewis. It is intellectual poetry...