Word: comprehend
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Truthfully, most people who come here read science and technology books, not The New York Times," he says. "They don't try to comprehend new views on democracy...
...Gaonkar said he believed that theories cannot comprehend these episodic objects...
...Adams, the key to reading is that words must be recognized almost instantly so that the brain can be free to comprehend what is being read. Eye-movement studies show that readers do fixate on virtually every letter in the text. It has also been shown that readers "sound out" words unconsciously. Each letter, then, must be sounded out with incredible speed. Of course, in English there are many different ways for sounds to be represented by letters. In Adams' scheme, a reader does not have to learn all these combinations; once phonemic awareness is established and some sound-letter...
...elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962, his first year of eligibility--but he also retained his humanity. Late in his career he wrote an eloquently spare letter to a white New Orleans journalist who had abused him in print: "I wish you could comprehend how unfair and un-American it is for the accident of birth to make such a difference...
...police acknowledged that they do not themselves fully comprehend fully the criteria for the different categories. "At this point I do not completely understand the distinction," Dillon said...