Word: comprehend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...records were played back to the hangdog announcers, most of them admitted that they sounded terrible. One announcer pleaded that he had had to read the same old commercials for 2½ years and that he was as bored as his audience. Most announcers, Meighan says, "fail to comprehend the informality of listening. They are up on a soapbox while the audience is flopped on,a couch...
...have condensed this conversation a good deal. But even in its original form, it meant nothing to me. Snappy backs? Godin? Firing line? I made polite murmurs of agreement, just to draw my companion out, to see if he would mention one name or one phrase that I could comprehend. It was useless...
...were not "relatively trivial." Congress' interest was based on a legitimate preoccupation with how more than $1 billion a year was going to be spent by an agency that was in some respects a law unto itself. Congressmen were baffled by a science too abstruse for them to comprehend. They were baffled by the need for national security on the one hand, the obvious necessity for un-hobbled scientific inquiry on the other. Beyond everything else, they were baffled by the problem of fitting absolute Government control of atomic power into the framework of the cherished U.S. system...
...this subject was called "Specialization in 20th Century Education." So complex has 20th Century technology grown that it requires an increasing number of specially trained men to keep it going. So rapidly has the fund of scientific knowledge increased that it has become impossible for one man to comprehend all of it even in outline form. The result has been an increasing number of trained people who know their own field and little else-a type of what Ortega y Gasset calls the "learned ignoramus...
...written examinations tests ability to read and write in English, ability to read in one foreign language and to comprehend and interpret statistics, and examines an applicant's range and accuracy of information in history and economics...