Word: comprehend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When The Big Drive was given a test run in Chicago last month it surprised cinema tradesmen by filling the McVicker's theatre for over two weeks. Hollywood producers, unable to comprehend that the cinema can be a medium for anything except drama, will be startled if. as is likely, The Big Drive repeats its success elsewhere. Producer Rule claims to have compiled his picture as peace propaganda of much the same brand as George Palmer Putnam's grisly collection of war photographs entitled The Horror of It (TIME, March...
Whether Mr. Hoover concealed the intricate of the development of his prodigious ideas because he believed the public might not comprehend certain moves, or whether he did so because he was doubtful of their success is of little importance. It is the secrecy which has been involved in the workings of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation that has caused disfavor. When Mr. Roosevelt and his colleagues cuter the White House, they will have an opportunity to be as secretive as the out going administration. Mr. Roosevelt can appoint a commission to continue the investigation of the dishonesty in New York City...
...half understood psychological terms, or has become so technical that it is of little use to the layman; and often, as in the comments on symphony programs, it has become a hopeless hodge-podge of the two. With a few exceptions, critics have lacked a training broad enough to comprehend the rational place of music among the other arts and its true relation to life. In fact, musical criticism, especially in the last few years, has been emotional, formless, and unreliable. In the few essays collected for the first time, the late Andrew Fraser has set n example and laid...
...please of the subject is lighted up. In mentioning words of such universal importance. President Butler assumed a responsibility to contribute something to one side of the other. As he remarks. "Universities are from time to time denounced as nurseries of revolution by these who are quite unable to comprehend what freedom to seek the truth really means and involves." He proceeds to defend the implications of the statement but concludes with a warning against the fall from dignity caused by attacks on others...
Although somewhat hardened to TIME'S well-known but inane penchant for stressing the physical peculiarities of personages named in its columns, I cannot possibly comprehend how you can justify the utter cruelty of the sentences above quoted. Perhaps you will enlighten...