Word: comprehend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Though she can comprehend the nature and consequences of her acts, her will is powerless to deter her from courses of conduct that have their roots in her emotional abnormality," glibly states her lawyer in his plea for elemency. It is said that the defence of young Hickman will be virtually the same, in his instance the abnormality being sadism. These two cases, together with the shocking acquittal of bootlegger Remus, seem a perfect justification of Governor Smith's plan for a board of criminologists and psychiatrists who might make disposal of all convicted criminals. It would remove the perplexing...
...degree in English were synonymous with an ability to comprehend the English language as a philologist then there would be ample justification in requiring from the most brilliant candidates a knowledge of Anglo-Saxon. An A. B. Degree in English, however, concerns itself primarily with the literature of the country and not in its etymological sources. Those desiring to become proficient in the latter should be allowed to do so; those who do not should be allowed the freedom of choice...
...would be allowed also to cut wages. Labor must accept lower wages; but would find the purchasing power of these wages increased by the cutting of prices. Theoretically this procedure was simple, sound. It was as simple and as sound as "daylight saving." But some skulls will not comprehend that a day is the same, no matter what the hours are called. Similarly some Italians could not understand last week that it makes no difference what a man's wage or profit is, so long as he can buy the same amount of goods or labor for it. Quite...
...twelve years later, a great and universally honored singer. But before attaining this pinnacle of success she had gone through a long period of degradation and poverty. She had been true to herself always, but realizes that her father with his stern and limited conception of morality could never comprehend the irregularities of a life so fundamentally different from his own. Thus she exacts the promise that no questions be asked about her past life if she is to return to the family who so ardently desire her. But the old father's suspicions are aroused, Magda forgets her initial...
...rather an interesting commentary on the immense gulf which separates man from the rest of the animal kingdom, that with all his supposed intellectual power, his mastery of science and physical nature, he is practically unable to look into the mind of his dog. This inability to comprehend certainly the workings of the animal mind has led to two extremes, the one typified by Descartes, who, as a serious part of his philosophy, contends that animals are as insensible as a stone or wood, and the other by the pseudo-scientific sentimentalists fill the libraries of our youth with their...