Word: understood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have received the encomiums of the speakers with a certain sense that I have not fully understood. One of them said that I had an unsual amount of courage. That has never entered my mind. I confess to recognizing another quality to which President Lowell referred--a readiness for combat. I look back upon my life as a boy sometimes engaged in those rough and tumble fights which we used to have on Boston Common, and I recognized there at a tender age that I did display considerable enjoyment in fighting...
...down in the rear elevator of Widener Library whenever they go to the Reading Room merely for the animal satisfaction of pressing the buttons. This, at least, entails no pecuniary, loss--and better still, preserves one's morals intact. After all, the moral effect of gambling is very little understood. It is not that the gambler, losing his own fortune, borrows from his friends; nor that having won a large sum he hates to tear himself away. The unfortunate fact is that few gamblers can resist the enticements of fetish and superstition. Faith in luck, in signs, in systems replaces...
...Califate, which came into existence in 632 A. D. on the death of Mahammad, is the highest office of the Moslem religion. To some extent, although it cannot be compared to it, the Califate occupied the same position as the Vatican: The Calif (meaning successor, with to the Prophet understood) was the pontiff of Mahammadanism...
This is the second time this year that Anglo-French correspondence has been published (TIME, Feb. 11). On the present occasion the letters were more specific and not less frank. Premier Macdonald stated that France's maintenance of large military and aerial forces is not understood in Britain; he also made a plea for Anglo-French co-öperation to prepare Europe so that the U. S. can be induced to help in general reconstruction on that continent. Premier Poincaré's reply contained a justification of France's policy. He made a plea for peace...
Senator Elkins, son of the , late Senator Stephen B. Elkins, was nominated and elected in 1918 when he was serving as a Major in the A. E. F. in France. It has been understood for some time that he intended to retire from the Senate when his term is past (Mar. 4, 1925). So he is not worried about reelection...