Word: comprehend
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...military machine whose purpose is the destruction of life. We recognize that conscription laws usually provide for conscientious scruples, but unfortunately the men who are appointed to judge the validity of these scruples are either military men or civilians of a military mind. They are unable to comprehend the workings of a conscience different from their own. These British courts have not only forced conscientious objectors to go to the front, but have sentenced them to hard labor, to prisons where they have been tortured, and some cases executed. A compulsory military system has small room for private conscience...
...those of a sea-artist--surely such a thing exists. But Miss Kellermann, with all her marine art, cannot save the play from dragging, and it is all because the thread of narrative becomes so unravelled after the first few minutes that it would take Sherlock Holmes himself to comprehend exactly all that is going on. For those events which do seem perfectly consistent to us are scenic rather than dramatic, and if "A Daughter of the Gods" is intended to be merely spectacular, why introduce so many touches of sentimentality? It is true the "leaders" tell us to become...
Only a man who fails to comprehend what the abolishment of such an institution would mean will cast his vote against compulsory membership and the establishing of the Harvard Union on a firm financial basis...
This vital modern question concerns every man who will enter the field of business and have to deal with labor. To comprehend the situation, to discriminate between the fair and preposterous demands of labor unions, future business men may obtain light on this subject by studying it in college. There are many college students who come from environments where the ideas are moulded by men who have seen organized labor grow into power, and who have always dealt with it as a menace or unwarranted interference with their liberties. Undergraduates are not rare who consider the labor problem very simple...
...Vera Cruz" with no definite purpose; the fleet with its individual ships in good order but lacking as "a fighting unit." All of which, he said, showed the inconsistent lack of detail. Congress did not go far enough, it was willing to do as much as its intelligence could comprehend but there it stopped...