Word: comprehend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Conference Delegate Key Pittman found himself marooned in the palace courtyard. The tall iron gates were locked. The imposing Grenadier Guards in their massive bearskin hats refused to do any unlocking. Senator Pittman pleaded to be let out. After long argument, the Grenadier Guards, still unable to comprehend why Delegate Pittman should not have been called for by his own car if he really was a person of such importance, grudgingly let him escape and hail a taxi...
...when I had analyzed the communication published at the head of TIME'S "Letters" column, issue May 22. As the signer is a close kin of mine I am overcome with a sense of responsibility. How such an undiplomatic note crept by the family censor I cannot comprehend, but it is not for me to offer excuses. To Secretary of Treasury Woodin, Colonel Louis McHenry Howe and TIME'S artist, who were mentioned in the same passage with "Australian Bushman" and "Bloodhound," humblest apologies. The distinguished Treasury head, Colonel Howe and the muse who instills magnetism in TIME...
Doubting Pauls have been unable to comprehend that Re-Thinking Missions, published last winter by the Rockefeller-sponsored Laymen's Foreign Missions Inquiry, gave a true picture of Christianity's status in the Orient. To confirm that picture, the Inquiry last week supplied them with Volume V of its source books-a combined volume of facts on Baptist, Congregational, Dutch Reformed, Episcopalian, Methodist and Presbyterian missions in China...
...industry, agriculture, transportation. To others it seemed as if Congress were abdicating its Constitutional powers to the White House. The country appeared in the thick of a gigantic social and economic revolution, quiet but nonetheless real, the direction and philosophy of which the average citizen did not begin to comprehend. President Roosevelt gave no such view of the national situation. Deftly he turned aside the "dictatorship" charge by pointing out that Congress still retains its Constitutional authority and has done nothing more than designate him as its agent in carrying out its will, all in keeping with U. S. tradition...
...efforts to bring about a standstill agreement among banks that were owed $80,000,000 by the Insull companies (TIME, April 18). Mused he: "I think Samuel Insull was very largely the victim of the complicated structure that he created. Capable though he was, he was unable to comprehend all the ramifications of that complicated structure. I think it is impossible for any one to get an accurate picture of the Insull setup, and I remember the feeling of helplessness that came over me when I began in February, 1931, to examine the structure...