Word: understood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tact, his understanding and sympathy, and his unfailing cordiality, Mr. Allen has succeeded in making the University better understood, both inside the Yard and out. The fact that the traditional hostility to Harvard has steadily diminished within the last college generation can be attributed directly to his efforts...
...tremendous blessings the Coue theory may bring about is better understanding of children. James Whitcomb Riley declared he thought children were always good if they were only understood, and he was right. The most natural of human desires is to merit approval, yet failure to properly cultivate and develop that desire is responsible for a great part of the world's misery...
...risk it. Let us declare positively that this particular "Bok of Danish Verse" is different. What the exigencies of text and interpretation may have been, we do not know; we do not want to know. We know only that the translators, to summon Coleridge, "first studied patiently, meditated deeply, understood minutely, till knowledge, become habitual and intuitive," linked itself to natural poetic felicity and power. The rest, the process of gestation, the travail and torment, we prefer to surmise. For the present translators are, as they ought to be, poets--fundamentally-and poets, even the more, that they could...
...common business school. What they forget is the comprehensive vision that is superimposed on the strictly practical groundwork. "Big Business", that overgrown bully of the modern world, will never be reformed until taken in hand by a few men with something better than personal motives. Only when theory is understood, as well as pratices and recognition made of the philosophy that underlies all commercial relations, can business be raised from an occupation to a profession...
Propaganda, even of the best sort, has failed so signally in the past few years that the word itself is looked on with suspicion. The most effective means left of making one nation understood by another is through the work of individual missionaries, and the hundred odd scholarship men coming back to America every year will be missionaries of France in the highest sense. It is safe to say that if each of these can interpret the spirit of the French people as well as the grand old man who leaves American shores today, Franco-American relations for the future...