Word: interpreted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...connection with our discoveries in Egypt, are of great value, as witness his letter in the Times of May 22 touching the statue of 'Joseph's Pharaoh' found by him and Naville at Bubastis in April. Our museums need an American to do similar work for science, to interpret 'things hard to be understood,' to tabulate coins, and indeed to deal understandingly with the many kinds of Egyptian antiques. We have important private collections wherein mines of knowledge await the mental pick and spade of the trained investigator...
...interpret the new law right - and we would be most happy to be corrected, if we are laboring under an essential misapprehension - there are but two courses open, either of which it fraught with serious difficulties...
...Surely, none of you can hopes to acquire his power at a less cost. Edwin Booth is a profound student. You can take no shorter path to his goal than he took. Gestures are a world of expression in themselves, and consist in the actions which truly and unmistakably interpret the emotion they serve to express. With them there is no shadow of turning, for they are founded on truth. You must master all the details of elocution, such as, standing, and I perceive that few of you know how to stand even, - enunciation and action before you can have...
...boyish sympathy, vivacity and emotion, as has never been seen before in Cambridge? Add to this the pathos of those memories and in truth to day would be the history of Harvard for half a century or more, if we could but have omniscience and overhear all the talk, interpret every look and expose all the passion of feeling which will surround us throughout...
...Minot urged the necessity of regular open-air exercise, and gave peculiar emphasis to this, especially as a preventive of consumption. Symptoms of coming disease are hard to interpret, general wasting being a sign of chronic affections; fever, severe chill or vomiting are the accompaniments of many of the more acute diseases. The lecturer closed with short directions to those who are in any way exposed to the disease, pulmonary consumption. His directions here were simply to live in obedience to the laws of hygiene, being much in the open air and not subjecting the system to protracted exertion...