Word: understands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...happy one. Professor Greenough has served a considerable term of years in the dean's office both as assistant and head dean. Any students who have had occasion to know him in this capacity can testify to his eminent fitness for a position in which the faculty to understand and guide undergraduates will be a prime requisite. Professor Coolidge, a man of lively perception and liberal sympathies, has also impressed the charm of his personality on the somewhat smaller number of Harvard men who have known him personally...
There is in my home today a melodeon of solid rosewood, purchased for my mother in 1860. It has had several new bellows, and minor repairs, and is in fine repair today. It is keyed to what used to be called "concert pitch," which, I understand is obsolete today, all instruments being tuned very much lower. My mother was offered $1,000 for it about 1887. It has a five octave, seven key keyboard, which is longer than the usual melodeon, which had, I believe, only five and a half octaves, or possibly only five...
...CERTAIN THAT IN THIS SOLEMN MOMENT ALL UNDERSTAND THESE WORDS FROM THE HEART OF THEIR KING AND THAT THEY WILL BE MY LOYAL FELLOW WORKERS IN ALL MY FUTURE EFFORTS TO DO WHAT THE HEALTH OF THE STATE REQUIRES...
Christians err, announced Pastor Holmes, when they speak of the Resurrection: "There is not the slightest shred of evidence that Jesus ever rose from the dead." Christians are all wrong because they don't understand the really great things Jesus did, such as wage war on Church and State. Christians are misguided, too, when they apotheosize the carpenter who loved the title...
...understand the significance of The Kingdom of God, it is necessary to consider the circumstances of its production. The play was a Spanish one, by G. Martinez Sierra, offered by Lee Shubert. For its Manhattan premiere, the Shuberts had provided a brand new theatre named, after the most famous actress in America, the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. The occasion was attended by notables. As well as notables there were play-reviewers who, chastened by Actress Barrymore's rebuke, later wrote that the play was bad and that she gave a beautiful performance...