Word: comprehend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bonn Byrne, his place in literature, estimated and set down so that professors as well as financiers could comprehend it, is the subject of an essay which won the Freshman prize for excellence in English last week at Yale College. Its author is Paul, son of Andrew W. Mellon-recently elected to the busy and portentous staff of the daily newspaper of that university...
...narrow social and economic corner of it. He lacks the knack of forgetting the prejudices of his own trade, his own class, and his own particular country; he is incapable of seeing things whole. The historian who has undertaken to project his imagination into other times, to comprehend other customs and motives, is the more likely to achieve a similar vantage point in surveying the modern world. It is only the educated man who can cock an historical eye at his own times and the man who can do this is surely educated...
...thus especially needs not merely a severe training in established facts and methods but training also that will give him a background which will permit him to comprehend further progress and to progress himself with it. In order words no one more needs some training in rapid but critical reading. Until recently, however, the pressure upon the medical student was such that it was extremely difficult for him to do reading aside from the text books that the routine demands...
...Student Friendship Fund Drive is an agent of great potential power and benefit for youth. It is based on a breadth of vision which near sighted critics may fail utterly to comprehend The conversion of such critics is but a side issue of the main object which is a direct appeal of youth in one land to that in others. Thoughtful Americans whose minds have ventured out of the provincial stage will support the Drive...
Unhappily the vast labyrinths of the English system of property tenure have served immemorially to make such suits unavoidable. For 30 years British jurists have been at work on a "simplification" of this system, which has grown into "a bill of 310 printed pages, to comprehend any one of which a layman would require a small law library...