Word: comprehended
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Astrology, after all, eventually led to astronomy, just as alchemy (which For man also dabbled in) laid the ground work for chemistry and physics. Forman may have been foolish, but he was not a charlatan. The Elizabethan epoch was one of rich contradictions; it is impossible to comprehend that time merely by reading its high literary work. As Rowse shows, men like Marlowe, Jonson and Shakespeare transcend their age; Forman embodies...
...level New Jersey underworld figure who supplied her with drugs. That became one more reason to set her brooding-and may have made the careless mixture of drugs and alcohol more likely. It now seems clear that Quinlan's life was changing faster than she could quite comprehend in the weeks just before it slipped from her control altogether...
Apparently, most of the players prefer to play three yards and a cloud of dust, and are simply unable to comprehend, let alone execute, Restic's shifts, reshifts, and counter-shifts. As a result, they refused to practice under Restic, and demanded a coach whose favorite plays were the Statue of Liberty and "everybody out, hit the open...
...poltical and ethnic militancy to a great university is that they distort the quality of those delicate relationships and sensibilities that sustain a great university. Indeed, those who adopt militancy as a style of behavior within a university do so precisely because they, for whatever reasons, no longer comprehend the behavioral requisites of a great university. Thus for them a new raison d'etre becomes imperative: the logic of militant confrontation runs its civility-destroying course...
...talk to her at that time. On September 11th, your reporter called and said she wanted to talk about Harvard's plans for a program in Modern Greek studies; I replied (she may recall that I had to repeat the same sentence twice since she did not appear to comprehend it on the first hearing) that in view of the fact that she had already spoken with President Bok about this I did not feel that I had anything to add to what he might have told you; and that was the extent of our conversation. Would you claim that...