Word: comprehend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mississippi" statement attributed to William Faulkner [March 26] seems almost incredible. How any man in the U.S., living in the present era of supposed enlightenment, can make such a statement is beyond my power of comprehension. Mr. Faulkner is evidently one of those Americans who neither appreciate liberty, nor comprehend the meaning of it. For my part, I'll choose the U.S. Apparently Mr. Faulkner is politically still living...
...America than anything else on the air." By its very nature, WWW is in love with big effects. But some of its best moments have been small ones. The New Orleans Mardi gras parade seemed lifeless compared to the efforts of a few deaf children in Baltimore to comprehend the rhythms of music through their fingertips. Sometimes, the nation does not look quite the way the TVmen think it should. For a 30-second shot in Weekiwachee, WWW moved in and planted 26 palm trees to make Florida more readily identifiable as Florida. When the program people wanted to show...
Surprised that you discuss our problems on segregation [Jan. 30] so lightly. It seems there are some things about the South that you damyankees just can't comprehend...
...souls, whose faculties can comprehend...
...Dispute it like a man." The evidence months. It is now possible to comprehend the prophesy of the three weird sisters when they said...