Word: comprehend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...filled with unconscious new ideals, answers through the mouth of Judge Ralph smith: "You chiseled every last dime you could. I don't see why you didn't choke on the food you got. I don't see how you could swallow it. This is unforgivable. I can't comprehend anything...
...upon the taxpayer at the end of the Roosevelt Administration will exceed $35,000,000,000. . . . Incidentally, out-side of recoverable loans, the Roosevelt Administration spending will exceed the Hoover Administration spending by from $14,000,000,000 to $15,000,000,000. I always have difficulty trying to comprehend what $14,000,000,000 or even $3,500,000,000 really is. But I know that even $3,500,000,000 would buy me 90,000,000 suits of clothes.* At least that is about one suit for every mile between the earth...
...biography of Dwight Whitney Morrow, lawyer, Morgan partner, Ambassador to Mexico, Senator from New Jersey, whose life receives at Harold Nicolson's hands an intelligent and exhaustive review such as few U. S. capitalists have enjoyed. Beginning with an apology for the inability of an English author to comprehend all the factors of a U. S. background, Harold Nicolson presents Morrow as a "completely civilized man," the possessor of an extraordinarily modern type of mind. His apology is misplaced, since Dwight Morrow reveals Nicolson's remarkable grasp of U. S. history, politics, social life, but nowhere establishes convincingly...
...Faith. To many a Protestant, the Catholic dogma of the Eucharist seems either too mystical to attempt to comprehend, or, if understood, too abstract a principle to rally great throngs of men and women. Essentially a Eucharistic Congress is a simple act of public corporate faith, centring in the great mystery of the real presence of Jesus Christ under the appearance of bread and wine. It also represents Catholicism openly on parade. To Catholics the spiritual benefits of Eucharistic Congresses have become obvious in the 32 international ones which have been held since 1881. Years ago the annual council...
...spite of this extra precaution on the part of the man unused to College methods he may well find himself enrolled in a course which he cannot rapidly comprehend. If he finds himself in such a predicament, he is advised to take advantage of the two weeks trial period the College allows in which he may change his course. Too few men have used this opportunity in the past...