Word: comprehend
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...culture is concerned, our problem is to develop, in harmony with our own institutions, a type of education that will cause young people to enjoy the things the world has agreed are beautiful, to be interested in the knowledge mankind has found valuable, and to comprehend the principles the race has accepted as true. This is culture, and to impart it is a function of the American college...
...them all keep one pace with no help outside from the teacher. There should be personal help. what good is such a pace? My son got an F in English. Do you wonder that seventy-nine per cent failed? Each day every student should be made to understand and comprehend every lesson. This everlasting "getting by" is the curse of the age. There should be spelling matches, occasionally. Please pardon. A. MOTHER...
...always easy for people to comprehend that the ordinary accretions of the attic, in the form of family letters, old account books, diaries, pamphlets, narratives written for the information of the family, etc., have often greater historical value than formal printed accounts by secondary historians, or autographs of distinguished men. There is sometimes a failure to perceive that an officer's commission in 1750 as a higher value than a printed county history on that period. The Commission, as its name signifies, is interested mainly in getting together material relating to western history, although a vast deal of this material...
...that 205 men have wilfully sold their privilege for a necessarily small monetary return. Unfortunately many men unacquainted with the system have found themselves debarred from making further application to football games, although they have never knowingly allowed their tickets to fall into the hands of speculators. Failing to comprehend the strictness of the rules relating to the distribution of tickets, men sometimes allow them to slip out of their hands, thinking that all responsibility on their part thereby ends. Such men should not be greatly surprised to find their names appear on the black-list, for if the Athletic...
...difficulty has been increased by the intense competition of modern industrial life, where the margin of profit is very small and depends upon a close scrutiny of expenditure and revenue,--a scrutiny which the manager feels keenly, but the scattered owners and the public fail to comprehend. Corporations have enabled small property owners to co-operate in vast concerns, and have rolled up huge aggregations of capital, capable of increasing wealth and exerting power for good and harm on an unprecedented scale; but they have made those owners, in most cases, absentees, with all the evils of absentee-proprietorship...