Word: comprehend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fail to comprehend. Why would Sir William's position be that of his hypothetical nurse? Why would he say what you attribute to him in the cut caption, if Queen Mary gave birth to twins in the circumstances mentioned...
...very satisfactory from the perfectionist point of view. One perceives in the first forty pages that dirty work is afoot; the dirty work is done; it is straightened out, and if, with the aid of a map inside the cover, one untangles the maze of proper names, one can comprehend and appreciate the situations in the sugar intrigue...
Socialists failed to comprehend Mrs. Baldwin. They know, as everyone knows, that the Conservative party is historically belligerent and imperialist, while the Socialist or Labor party is pacifist...
...hearing about Mr. Rockefeller. ROCKEFELLER GIVES A MILLION. Every U. S. reader has seen that headline. Last week, no exception, saw the announcement of the annual report of the Rockefeller Foundation, listing an expenditure of $1,223,124 "Amazing" said the public as it turned the page, failing to comprehend the figure in the light of an item in the world's broadest educational program. But, rare is the educator or the scientist who has not, or does not hope to be, aided by this program...
...altogether necessary to salvation for every human being to be subject to the Roman pontiff." So wrote Pope Boniface VIII in the year 1302. Two centuries later Leo X, the pope who failed to comprehend the significance of Luther's revolt against the church, explained that "every human being" meant "all Christian believers", in an attempt, it seems, to mitigate the arrogance of the papal claim to universal political supremacy while retaining it in things spiritual. Even as thus amended the statement is sufficiently uncompromising, but it is the sort of thing one can well imagine popes in the fourteenth...