Word: comprehend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...happened is grave. . . . For guidance let us turn to Jesus Christ, who revealed to men not only the way of spiritual salvation, but how to create a fellowship on earth. . . . Christ wanted men to see, to see far and to see truly. . . . Christ wanted men to have hearts that comprehend the human significance of what is seen. . . . Christ wanted men to reason clearly and serenely...
General George Catlett Marshall, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, made this conception very clear last week. General Marshall addressed the Governors' Conference at Columbus, Ohio, but he might have been addressing himself to the Russians, and to their doubts that Britons and Americans comprehend the realities of all-out war. Said...
...through a piece of stone is a revelation. The hole connects one side to the other, making it immediately more three-dimensional." The child "has to develop . . . the ability to judge roughly three-dimensional distances." But most adults "do not make the further intellectual and emotional effort needed to comprehend form in its full spatial existence. This is what the sculptor must...
Besides being a distinguished physicist and thus interesting to men majoring in that field, the lecturer has always been noted for his policy of presenting scientic subjects in a manner simple enough for the average student to comprehend...
Formal education for the present you leave aside, but you will grow in wisdom nonetheless. Now knowledge will come to you by virtue of the sacrifices that you will be asked to make. Having been ready to run all risks for freedom, you will comprehend it as those of us at home cannot. On some subsequent commencement day you will return with the understanding born of great events. On that occasion it will be said to you as of the returning Harvard soldiers...