Word: comprehend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Vast changes lie ahead. Intelligence divines them. Creative thought strives to comprehend and forecast. It must of necessity sap the foundations of men's little systems-the very systems which they struggle to sustain by gifts of money...
...this, as a teacher of Christian doctrines, he has had a great deal to do with the natives themselves, and knows their habits and customs, as well as their point of view. It is the Hindu point of view which the world at large must understand in order to comprehend the Ghandi revolt against English rule, which has completely transformed India, and changed it from a nation of submissive onlookers to one of active revolutionists...
...that the most important nations now left to confer are themselves divided on the point of wanting a conference its success seems jeopardized. When further, any consideration of rearranging German reparations and balancing of budgets of some of the nations are not to be discussed, it is difficult to comprehend how any progress can be made...
...little evidence of any Scottish characteristics except when the folk tunes themselves appear. At times we are reminded of an inferir "Rheingold". The work, however, has always been a favorite with violinists as it is understandingly written for the instrument, and is not too difficult for the public to comprehend...
...Harvard professors who are in the thick of the fight to be greatly disturbed when anyone accuses us of "respectability". Indeed the whole notion that colleges and their professors concern themselves soley with members of their "brotherhood" is unjustified. Strange that journals professing to lead advanced thought should not comprehend the fact that present day colleges are far too dependent for their existence upon the world of affairs to remain complacently aloof...