Word: comprehend
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...produced as well under American direction as under any other. More, it gives greater enjoyment to the mass of the people which comprise the average audience when it is sung in an understandable language than when foreign singers use a medium that but few of the audience can comprehend...
...plausible suggestion for such a change would be to apply a set of examinations in the Junior, or early part of the Senior year to test a student's ability to comprehend the elementary French or German which is related to his field of concentration. For example, if a man should specialize in Physics he would be called upon to pass an examination in scientific French or German. A student able to pass such an examination would gain access to much valuable material which would otherwise be unavailable. There are some branches of the existing group system, such as Romance...
...shows tendencies, unformed but not the less foreboding, towards the course of the French Revolution. Already the Czar is held in that dark prison which, with grim satire, is dedicated to two Christian fathers. Already the mobs go up and down the street, shrieking for the liberty they cannot comprehend. The rule of the mob is always terrible, for under it all that is lofty vanishes. If only through the rule of the mob may the rule of the people find stability, then we must consign ourselves to the maxim of the Jesuits, and trust that the end justifies...
...vengeance on one man, were inspired by a spirit of patriotism which is as false as it is evil. Not by violence may the great democracy be made steadfast. They, ignorant of the meaning of liberty, used the methods of violence to defend an ideal which they could not comprehend...
...National service is the vital need of the hour, and Military Training the foundation upon which it must rest. The prime factors of National Service comprehend the industrial and military forces of the nation and are necessarily inter-dependent...