Word: understandingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reasoned, is to make bleak, sparsely populated Siberia so attractive to Russians that they will swarm there with enthusiasm and, once established, fight to defend their homes. The tragic error of Nicholas II was to suppose that he could beat Japan with soldiers from European Russia who could not understand why Asiatic soil 4,000 miles from their homes was worth fighting for. Wiser than Nicholas II, Stalin I plunged Russia last week into the most farsighted and stupendous effort of military-economic preparation for defense in history. To help put the Dictator's program across, newsorgans throughout...
...northward. Whether or not he will admit it, the average Yale undergraduate would rather be locked in an igloo for the winter with a Cantab than a Princetonian for all his smoothness (a term which, by the way, has lost some of its former snap). He might not understand the "indifference" of the Harvard man, but he would get goddam sick and tired of hearing about the nifty third sax in Cab Casa Loma's orchestra as set forth by the Tiger...
...than the year before, in spite of the fact that last year saw a drop of 58 per cent in the number of calls received, it was revealed by Dr. Fred C. Smith, Director of Placement of the School of Education. Dr. Smith stated that it was difficult to understand why this increase in placements took place, all records seem to show that teachers with the most thorough training are getting more and more any jobs which may exist...
...sort was Kentucky-born Miss Sophonisba Breckinridge, professor of Public Welfare Administration since 1929 at the University of Chicago. She urged progress in promoting international interchange of bibliographic material. After sitting through a committee session in Spanish on social problems, Sophonisba Breckinridge said: "I don't understand Spanish but I have heard those same arguments so many times before that it was quite nice, just like home...
...president, does not mean that the liberal arts idea will be superseded by a scientific one; President Conant seems to be just as much in favor of the liberal arts as he is of science. We must realize the difference between American and European culture, if we are to understand the liberal arts situation in the University. In Europe, culture consists of a good knowledge of the classics, of literature and history. In this country a knowledge of practical science is more important than a knowledge of the classics. Harvard is attempting to give this medium between the scientific...