In order to advertise itself, the magazine employed the trick of Construing a mere admission of uncertainty as to the exact pin-point attainment of the Pole as a "confession."
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
"I was Construing a line of Virgil," he said.
"Girls of the Forest"
L. T. Meade
Simple Construing would read thus: 'In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost at your service.
"The Unknown Sea"
Clemence Housman