Word: understood
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...result of his work, Professor Robinson has brought back for deposit in the Gray Hebarium many photographs and drawings of these plants, hitherto imperfectly understood upon this side of the Atlantic...
...mental discipline. The children brought up "along the lines of least resistance" are most often the intellectually spoiled children, "flabby of mind and will." "Education should first and foremost train; and training had for its very substance the overcoming of obstacles; furthermore, every specialty is better mastered, better understood in its relation to human life and achievement, by the man who has worked hard in other subjects...
...never missed the Sunday concerts conducted by Lamourdux. His charming conversation was another prominent characteristic and for fifteen years he received at his house on Tuesday evenings all the best poets of our time, who came to enjoy his strong and witty conversation. He was always better understood on such occasions than in his written prose, and this fact irritated him not a little. He always wrote, even the lectures he delivered in Belgium and England, in a very rich but difficult prose which gave him the reputation of being obscure...
...singular boldness, of his work was not understood by all was qualified as strange and extravagant, but his poems have triumphed over the attacks upon them. If everyone does not consider them as masterpieces, they are at least conceded to have been written by one of the most interesting and ingenuous spirits of these days...
...order that the music may be better understood, Mr. W. H. Schofield will lecture on the play in Sever 11, on an afternoon shortly preceding the concert...