Word: understood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...young workers assured: that men and women shall receive equal pay for equal work; that industrial betterments shall be enforced by proper inspection, in which women as well as men shall take part; that wages shall be sufficient to maintain a reasonable standard of living, as this is understood in each time and country, and that employees as well as employers have the right of association for all lawful purposes...
...consented to speak in the New Lecture Hall tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock. The meeting will be open to all members of the University. J. E. Harley 2G., chairman of the Graduate Schools Society, will introduce the speaker. No subject has been announced as yet, but it is understood that Mr. Bryan will discuss some political question. He is at present beginning a tour of the country, visiting important cities to speak on political problems now urgently before the nation...
...hears much nowadays of "Americanization"; but "Americanization", unfortunately, is a long word, which is not fully understood by either immigrant or native. In so far as it implies any concrete program, "Americanization" seems to connote a draught of medicine, administered with a certain degree of force, to a patient who hesitates, even if he does not struggle. The medicine, from our point of view, may be very beneficial. But that will not make it taste any better to the recipient; and unless the latter knows the purpose of the remedy, as well as the nature of his ailment, the cure...
...they conceal the propagation of plans for radical action; that there are only two parties to the struggle for "domination," viz., the Conservatives and the Radicals; and that the Liberals drift a vacillating course through the wake of the struggle of the first two, it is time it be understood what Liberalism is. The knowledge may serve the purpose of showing the folly of the juvenile antics of those anaemic undergraduates who parade to class with 'The Liberator" displayed around their note-books...
...criterion of a man's future success, then marks would have consigned Emerson, the historian Prescott, and a host of other Harvard leaders to eternal ignominy. The purpose of education has been well expressed by Professor Henry Holmes: "Not a mind to be informed but a world to be understood...