Word: comprehend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fully $30,000 after providing for interest on the investment and the sinking fund required. It is so obvious that more seats would result in an increase of our net income from the two capacity games now played annually in the Stadium that I am utterly unable to comprehend the process of reasoning followed by the CRIMSON in arriving at the conclusion that the building of more football seats would delay the provision of athletic opportunities for all. Such an argument, to quote Mr. Jones of Yale, is nothing less than "ridiculous...
...Horatio-Alger-like career of Chairman Jones. "From rags to riches," said the New York World. Two of the gum-chewers' sheets published friezes of photographs which told the story of this man's extraordinary career so lucidly that even the most illiterate readers could not fail to comprehend. They showed Mr. Jones as a bright-cheeked office boy, starting his business career at the age of 15. During this period he received $5 a week. They showed him at the shaving age when he was working his way through business school by selling typewriters. Other photographs pursued him from...
...When she finds a word she likes or doesn't understand, she looks it up in every available dictionary and studies every possible meaning and use for it. Some of the words she does not fully comprehend, but she learns how to use them...
...hours of the last Congress, the Committee was authorized to make an investigation into the administration of the Department of the Interior with the special purpose of looking into the matter of grazing on the public lands. But the Committee has decided that its authority is wide enough to comprehend investigation of reclamation projects, the forestry bureau and timber lands, water power development, mining and probably national parks and Indian affairs as well-all matters in the province of the Department of the Interior. On Aug. 26, it will start like a great Juggernaut upon its inquisitorial path...
...President recounted "scraps of territorial history" because "unless we keep them in mind we shall not at all comprehend. . . ." He used one quotation : "I remember to have read somewhere, I think in the writings of the historian Lecky*, the observation that...