Word: understandingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...understand the point of questions 9 and 10. If the general examinations are of the proper sort, preparation for them and work in the general field should boil down to the same thing. If this is not the case, there may well be something wrong with the examinations. Construing tutorial work in this broader sense, I cannot honestly say that any one of the students I have had has "failed to respond to tutorial instruction...
Based on the principle, "Seeing is Understanding," the Seminar has as its object arriving at a fair estimate of actual conditions in Russia, so often tempered by propaganda and personal prejudice. Russia has been chosen as the material for study because of its probable effect as a new element on civilization. Dana said, "It is the most important thing in the world today that Russia and America should understand each other...
When Anglo-Persian, due to world overproduction of oil, started to curtail its Persian flow (and therefore the Shah's royalties) Chief Marshal of the Court and Minister of State Teymourtache simply could not understand. "O King of Kings," he reputedly said to the Shah, "the policy of the English is clearly wrong. If more oil is produced, the price of this fluid all over the world will become cheaper, thus conferring universal benefit, and the more oil that flows the greater will be Persia's royalties. Since the deluded English wish to produce less oil, not more...
...easy to understand why the professor should sometimes adopt the procedure he does. He believes that by so doing he prevents those who have gone to the tutoring bureaus from getting a good grade in the course. But the evil connected with the system is that if he has delivered a killing blow to the Widow's patrons, he may at the same fell swoop, have hurt those average students who have been steadily working during the term...
...ways in which clever women can endear themselves to men is by playing down to them. Clever men understand this is mere humoring on the clever woman's part, but they like it. E. M. Delafield (née Edmée Elizabeth Monica de la Pasture; now Mrs. Arthur Paul Dashwood) is good at humoring her readers, who liked her Diary of a Provincial Lady, should like The Provincial Lady in London still more...