Word: understood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expressly understood that no part of the increased revenue obtained from tuition will be used for buildings, but solely to maintain and improve instruction in the departments already existing...
Tony came to the Berkenmeer hospital with an injured arm which, it was tacitly understood among the golfing-aviators, would not prevent him from breaking anyone's jaw. But "Berkenmeer was meant for 'officers and gentlemen,' as the phrase ran"; so, acting on an inverse snobbism, Tony kept to himself. The only man with whom Tony had anything in common-they could both walk on their hands-was Harvey Sayles, an educated and war-shocked aviator, who thought out loud because he liked to hear himself think. He was the kind of a man who reads...
Speculating on the future of militarism in general, he said significantly: "The Reichswehr is incapable of being used to wage war as this has been understood in the past. But how the art of waging war will develop in the future we do not know, so all we can do is keep our eyes open and watch war's further development...
...must be admitted that the orators showed themselves not only scholars but actors of no mean histrionic ability. The thirty-minute harangue was enjoyed by the students. Furthermore the causes for the Civil War now are far better understood by the class than any amount of reading could perhaps have made them...
Seriously though, the experiment yesterday is highly to be commended. History to be really understood must almost be experienced. Time and dignity perhaps will not allow the full program outlined above, but still there is positive good to be derived from such expositions on a small scale. And even where this is not possible, many lectures could be greatly improved by laying greater stress on the creation of "atmosphere...