Word: understandingly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...eleven years an instructor in mathematics, philosophy, ordnance &; gunnery. Truly he might have said looking about for something to do after he retires from the active list and the superintendency this week: "I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical; I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical; about binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o'news-with many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse!" * He has also a pretty knowledge of astronomy, and chemistry he knows but does not care for. Many offers came in. Last week this Modern Major General...
...novelized." If he has any faults, his chief one, as he himself admits, is probably politeness. Mr. Maurois has become too well acquainted with his subject to be other than grateful. That is why the aloof sarcasm of Strachey is largely absent. Mr. Maurois attempts at all times to understand. In "A Private Universe" he gives advice to young Frenchmen departing for England and America. "Give logic a rest while you are over there," he tells the first. "But enjoy the general spectacle." To the second: "Fashion within yourself an America of which you will be worth: that...
...lettres. Hamlin Garland has told of the change. But Emerson was the flesh and blood of America's first native literature, and as such he has become a myth, godly, mysterious, and sacred. Moderns do not read Emerson much, perhaps because they fear the myth, perhaps because they cannot understand his strength...
...kinds of scandal have been heaped on my head. I have been patient with the betrayors of China, but now ... I have crossed the river and burned my boat. I have no alternative except to fight the Japanese to the end. I trust that my fellow countrymen will now understand my true self...
...idle to close our eyes," said the Japanese Foreign Office spokesman, "to the fact that Soviet Russia is displeased with what has happened in North Manchuria, which is considered in the Russian sphere of influence. We can understand their disappointment at seeing their domination in North Manchuria fading permanently. We certainly have no intention of attacking Soviet Russia and do not believe they are so rash as to challenge Japan...