Word: understandings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leave some mark on the face of their enormous country; violent but good-natured, naive but shrewd, poetic without knowing it, unintimidated by distance and too engrossed in their struggles with nature to bear grudges for long. And at the end of the 2,000-mile road they can understand William Clark's elation when he wrote, at the mouth of the Columbia: "Ocian in view...
...editor, McClure was a trial, but a stimulating one. A meteoric traveler, he returned to the office with despairing laments that the magazine was dying (its circulation climbed from 8,000 to 750,000 in twelve years), that the staff could not understand him. Reading the files of a rival publication, he exclaimed, "Not a Lincoln article! It is not a great magazine!" Thereupon he set Ida Tarbell to writing her enormously successful Life of Lincoln. Editor Lincoln Steffens was bewildered by the passion with which McClure ran staff meetings, spouted good and bad ideas-one of them, that Steffens...
...businesses of Wolff and Parker-Cramer are based. As a means to real education, these are a farce. They consist, for the most part, in skillful spotting of examinations and cramming of answers. Students emerge merely with high-lights of information--which is necessarily superficial, which they do not understand, which they have not assimilated. The most important part of study, organization of the material, is completely absent. Thus the essence of education-mastery in the methodology of thought--is taken out. Students do not think; their thinking is done for them...
...always cooperated better," he said. "And in New Haven I understand Yale has been far more sympathetic toward the city's problems...
...would ever fail," inquired the program notes, "to understand the vibrations of hydrogen, if he had felt them while dancing with a beautiful living atom in his arms? Who would ever forget the position of the bonds in benzene if he had played the part of a carbon atom whirling around with lovely hands holding him on either side...