Word: understood
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...understood that this happens all the time," Milikowsky says. "But the campus had no mechanisms for response. We wanted to start some kind of dialogue and combat the silence of the system...
While you're at it, make it a personal crusade to stamp out the lies on this campus. I never understood the appeal of the ha-ha-funny "1638" on the John Harvard Statue. And what about the three-year-old "Anne Bradstreet" gate outside Canaday? Unveiled as part of a "25 Years of Women in Harvard Yard" celebration in 1997, a nearby plaque quotes its Puritan namesake in the gilded letters of her prose: "I came into this Country, where I found a new World and new manners at which my heart rose." Inspirational--until you realize that...
...Harvard would like to be perceived as a social partner but [administrators] don't want to have their hands tied in any way," Galluccio says. "I don't think they've listened or really understood the advantages of developing a partnership with the city...
Meislin was one of a handful of people who understood the technology that was to revolutionize the way news was printed, presented and even reported well before anyone else did, say his colleagues at The Times...
Eisenhower understood that however gripping the battle histories, nothing captures the heartrending pity of war the way good poetry can, particularly that written in trenches and foxholes amid the horrors of combat. It is one thing to read in a textbook that more than 116,000 U.S. soldiers died in World War I; it's quite another to be struck by the question British poet Wilfred Owen raised in his Anthem for Doomed Young: "What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?/Only the monstrous anger of the guns./Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle/Can patter out their hasty...