Word: understood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...about the town to attend various section meetings, where marvel after scientific marvel was related demonstrated or predicted. Evolution. Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn of Columbia University and the American Museum of Natural History, was there as a guest to expatiate upon the enormous difference between Evolution as it is understood today and as it was debated in Oxford half a century ago by Darwin's champion, Thomas Henry Huxley, and empurpled Bishop Wilberforce. (The difference: Darwin saw discontinuity where modern zoologists and paleontologists read continuity, in the speciation of plants and animals.) Rat. Dr. William McDougall, onetime Oxonian...
...last week, as they had already watched for a fortnight, for the postman. But even when he came they turned away still worried, depressed, edgy. At last their parents spotted a paragraph in the newspapers: "Grading of College Applicants Delayed. . . ." Their tension remained, but the 11,000 at least understood that the College Entrance Examination Board had not forgotten them, that it was delayed in its terrible function of correcting the nervously scribbled "books" of 22,000 would-be matriculants to Vassar, Smith, Princeton, Yale, Wellesley, Harvard, etc., owing to the facts: that the scribbling was not finished until June...
...righteous Senator Borah had once played with Presidential etiquette by failing to appear at a White House luncheon for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, of which he is chairman. No explanation of the incident was made at the time, but last week it was said that Senator Borah had understood the luncheon to be canceled, whereas really a breakfast invitation for another day had been canceled...
...reason that "niggers don't vote," that there are no race-riots and little real racial antagonism in the South, is that the relative positions of Negroes and Whites are so well understood by both races that emphasis by snobbery and insults is unnecessary...
...opera, was a mine for a local operatic golddigger. Asked his opinion, Liszt silently laid his hands on the keyboard and, beginning with the unique tremolo in the bass, played his beloved Sonata in A flat. Victor Halvéy, French poet, writes that until then he had never understood Weber's music, which now brought tears to his eyes and silence to his former sneers...