Word: understand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Secret sect which claims to understand the mysteries of Nature; founded in Europe...
...religion, the professor gives us to understand, must secure its facts from science. Just why facts are necessary to religious concepts or just what facts we know outside the realm of science. Dr. Barnes has not seen fit to reveal. Most scientists put their primary interest in the observed conditions of life and are content to base their religion on then inmost individual thoughts. Now in his speech before a society of Free Thinkers Professor Barnes lays down the one and only "scientific" view of the cosmos...
...jury was given to understand that the motive of the murder was robbery. Newspaper correspondents were not welcomed at the trial. John Blymyer was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment. Said...
...Berlin last week: "There is no occasion for anybody to be excited about it. There will be only a few mathematicians who will be inclined to read it and. although I never did make that statement which was ascribed to me that only eleven people in the world could understand relativity, I really don't believe that there will be more than a handful of people who will take the trouble to follow its argument...
...ceremony, however, was far more important than the prizefight, and to understand why, it is necessary to know something about the present conditions of the prizefight industry...