Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...average alien does not understand what is the matter with him; and in many cases, unfortunately, he does not care. He does not understand the fundamental principles of Anglo-Saxon government, it is true; but it has taken our own race a thousand years to develop those principles to the point they have now reached and we cannot expect the alien to learn them in a day. If some of his opinions are opposed to ours, that does not of necessity make him (especially in his own eyes) either a criminal, to be forcibly deported, or an imbecile...
...confidence of the side against whom he had made the decision. The knowledge thus gained in the study of a wage dispute was lost and an inexperienced man was called upon in the next dispute. In this way our labor problems have been solved by men who did not understand their task...
...most obtuse, that a reply to the communication on psychical research must necessarily defend the indefensible ignorance of the CRIMSON on this one subject at least; and I hasten to suggest that this is not likely to be done by one who is so dull as to "understand that Lodge, and all others seriously interested in the study, place very small importance on the phenomena produced by mediums!" SYDNEY A. GROSS...
...American universities have raised $500,000 to erect a new library, which will probably be built outside the city on more extensive grounds. I don't know when they will begin to collect books, but we want to have a library as soon as possible; I could not understand a university without a library...
...Next are 10,000,000 laboring men and women with their short hours and large pay, well able to devote the time and money to study. The foreign element, he listed next, men who especially need this educational treatment to make them better citizens and better able to understand the government of which they are a part when they come to this country...