Word: understood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suggests that the speaker had a twinkle in his inward eye when he summoned Youth to labor for leadership. He knew that intelligent, earnest effort is the lesson which Youth must learn, and he understood that the way to encourage it was to offer attractive rewards in the form of freedom and progress. What he says about a rebellion of Youth we must take with a grain of salt. He himself hardly wants Age to be thrown in the discard; what he does want, artfully, is for Youth to want it so; because he knows that only through the discontent...
Great interest naturally has attached to the recent discoveries of Mr. Hammond and Professor Chaffee in the field of wireless. By employing a sort of ethereal "hog-Latin" they are able to send out a jumble of waves which can only be understood by those in possession of the "key". All those who have ever enjoyed (?) the luxury of hearing Mary Garden, Sousa's Band and Bert Lowe's dance orchestra working away merrily at one and the same time on 360 meters will no doubt be delighted with this new system for secret wireless communication. To be sure...
...certain amount of special preparatory work before coming to New York, where the trip will start, and for a training course during the days on shipboard. The subject of this preliminary study will be the political and economic conditions in Europe, as nearly as they can be understood from a distance. This work is intended to form a background against which the conditions, as they really are, can be more clearly seen and understood. The program calls for an extensive tour of Europe, including stops at the principal cities, where the party will meet leaders of political and economic thought...
...period of Dryden, Pope, and Addison, and of the pseudo-classic movement, the art of the Romanesque and Gothic periods was scorned and considered barbarous. In the 19th and to a still greater extent in the 20th century the enormous artistic value and signficance of this early work is understood more and more. The Fogg Museum has recently acquired some examples of Romanesque art which are among the noblest in America. These capitals were removed from their original places in the 12th century church by an architect in the 18th century who failed to perceive their beauty, and replaced them...
...looking into "English A" a bit. I had thought of it as merely a course in theme writing; I was a party to my own son's omitting it upon entrance by reason of having "anticipated" it at Exeter. I am prepared now to say that if I had understood the idea underlying "English A" I should have urged him to take that course, regardless of any privilege of anticipation, almost if it were to have been his only course at Harvard. For I have become impressed with the idea that that course is--at any rate potentially...