Word: understandingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...state cars do not get the permit, and are found not insured, the fine is $100. I can't understand why students at Harvard who receive the finest education take such risks. They ought to know better. I guess the trouble is that their fathers have too much money and they don't take care of their cars. They don't park their cars in safe places while there are hi-jackers going around...
...played tweedledum to Don Jose Callava's tweedledee in Florida's ridiculous prestige brawl of 1820? When these samples, with countless of their kind, are added to the confused problem of Jackson's birthplace, his marriage, his treatment of the Creeks. et al., it is easy to understand why Parton, Summer, and Bassett failed to do their, subject justice, as Mr. James modestly suggests...
...extended over eight, one loses the memory of the sun and and all the young budding things. Time will be short in later years for the perusal of the classics; college provides the time, the place, and the incentive. Freshmen, when they learn the topography of the college, will understand the meaning of the words: "Go South, young...
That such an attitude should exist is due chiefly to the fact that it is admittedly difficult to wax as enthusiastic over the same lecture the tenth or even the fifth time as it was the first or second. But what no one except the student can understand is that for him it is the first time; he has never studied just this material, he has never read this book, he has never heard this lecturer, and he is making a sincere effort the first few weeks to enjoy it. For him there is everything to gain, and nothing...
Critical consensus, while it writes off Gertrude Stein's less comprehensible utterings as a public loss, grants that she has been a private gain to more intelligible writers, and that her influence on contemporary literature has been vicariously potent. Serious critics take her seriously, even when they cannot understand what she is doing. Says Critic Wilson: "Most of us balk at her soporific rigmaroles, her echolaliac incantations, her half-witted-sounding catalogs of numbers; most of us read her less & less. Yet, remembering especially her early work, we are still aware of her presence in the background of contemporary...