Word: comprehend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Antioch and other educational experiments are important and interesting because they show that education is not static, but they can never comprehend all of education and religion. The elder universities will continue in cloistered seclusion to prepare students for life, is Antioch prepares them in the midst of life...
...Sturly did not comprehend. Now grown a mail-clad Titan of 500 pounds, he sounded back into the black-glimmering, life-bearing abysses where it seemed all truth must be hidden. He searched the shimmering shoals and sea-gardens of all the oceans, as it is a Sturgeon's destiny to do. He knew all the fish, which ate which, and observed how the vast submarine cosmoplasm is also a vast necropolis...
...message to American students is a plea that they look ahead into the future and attempt to comprehend the indisputable fact that the Pacific is the center of activities to be. Affairs are already on the move from the Atlantic. Japan and America will play the leading roles in these Pacific problems that will present themselves. Japan has the strategic position of the East. The West cannot deny it. Today in Japan there is taking place a tremendous conflict or social forces which should be studied with great care by Americans. If your nation and mine are to play...
...more sacred resting place testifies. No one can deny that the memory of his deed will be a stimulus to haired of the United States nor that nationalists and militarists will make the most of the tradition to kindle the spirit of war. Americans may never be able to comprehend the tangled heritage of poetry and religion that gives hara-kiri such a control over the Eastern imagination, but at least they may see the results of such control. A hint may even filter through to the effect that what to one nation may seem nothing but a diplomatic incident...
...sessions of the National Academy of Sciences continued yesterday with the presentation of papers by various members in Pierce 110. Most of the subjects discussed were highly technical and difficult for a layman to comprehend...