Word: understand
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...study card. He does not expect anyone to give up all other branches of study. Our Faculty, as one may guess, is not an enemy combined against humanitarianism. But times change, and such changes make new study imperative. The world war has wrought a tremendous change, and we must understand the forces that are to decide that...
...leadership. A navy officer is always made, and by a slow and exact course of study in the sciences of the sea. The preparation, being more thorough, is therefore more permanent. When the peace note has been signed in Potsdam, we shall still need our merchant marine. Men who understand the study of navigation now may then be of service to their nation and themselves...
...American people, as has been noted often by men who understand their temperament, are emotional to an unusual degree. That emotionalism has been quickened to unexpected intensity by our entrance into the German War. Whereas before we were content to view rather calmly, and in a sense of abstract interest, the outcome of the war, we have now become absorbed in it with our whole hearts...
...question of food, once academic and distant, has become intensely acute. Through the warning voice of Mr. Hoover, pronouncing the doom of starvation for the world, the people have come to understand that abundant sustenance for life is not a purely natural good, springing without labor from the ground. Such understanding was necessary to check the wastefulness and the shortsightedness which have gone with our opulence. We have, as is clearly shown, profited by the understanding...
...unfamiliar tongue is in the nature of the subject and the lecturer. Bravery speaks in every language with but one speech. French of Paris may be to us unknown, but the French of the battlefield, of Verdun and Vimy Ridge, is a tongue we may all talk, and understand...