Word: understand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best popular scientific literature is written by scientists who having a command of their subject to begin with, learn to express their thoughts in prose clear and simple enough that the average person can understand it; in short, they successfully "write down" to their reader. Possibly the worst science writing is the reverse of this process; a journalists or some other unqualified commentator "writes up" to a subject, trying to explain to the reader something that he himself only vaguely understands. In "Cancer", Bewa Doherty attempts just such a feat and fails rather miserably...
...Cannon House was removed from the rolls of rented property and that summer it was completely renovated in preparation for the establishment of a center which might give Harvard and Radcliffe students, and their friends, and opportunity to continue beyond the limits of the classroom their efforts to understand and appreciate foreign cultures...
Hutchins is teaching men to think and to act consistently with those thoughts. And if nothing else, his antiphony intellectualism procedures show that there are some men in the educational field who understand the plight of the ordinary college student...
Official Phrases. Although Wing Commander seemed to understand the ringmaster's verbal commands (for a rack, a walk, a canter), he was getting instructions through his rider's legs and the bits in his mouth. In the trot, Rider Teater deliberately let the field draw ahead of Wing and then clucked to him. The champ, all the prettier to watch for being alone, quickly caught up with the field and passed most of it. After going through all their paces, Wing Commander and two others were selected to remain in the center of the ring. The order...
...doesn't mean Pleasure Dome to be profound literary criticism, and since it isn't, it can be judged by only one standard: Does it really help the ordinary intelligent reader-the kind who might tackle a Faulkner novel but shies away from an Eliot poem-to understand and enjoy 20th Century poetry...