Word: understandables
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...system of correcting themes seems too to be defective. The application of certain stereotyped words and phrases to all sorts of errors is extremely unsatisfactory. When we have been careful in framing our sentences, we cannot understand how those sentences are to be corrected, when they are simply marked with such expressions as "vague," "obscure," and the like, and no further explanation is given...
...have before had occasion to speak of the want of consideration shown by certain instructors in keeping their sections after the hour. In some cases the evil still continues. It is, we understand, a regular practice of one of the instructors in Greek not to let his men out until four or even five minutes after the proper time...
...excess by his own countrymen, was in reality a coarse and ignorant man. So was his wife, and all her relations. His daughter, too, though she had aspirations, was very uncultured and inexperienced. The polite English people looked upon her with horror not unmingled with amazement. They did not understand her vagaries; they did not know that American society is provincial...
...ignorance and indifference as regards parliamentary law, these reasons will commend themselves. Those who make the proposition appreciate to the utmost the importance and necessity of the training which the Union now gives, but they feel also that every man who purposes to be a good citizen ought to understand the workings of the law-making bodies of his country; and they fully believe that, in a Legislature of the nature intended, he would be enabled to gain such an understanding. They wish it distinctly understood that this new society will be in no way antagonistic to the Union...
...students, of course. Come in, and perhaps you will understand our system better...