Word: comprehend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...called upon by two of his clients, the brothers Leonardo and Pietro Danna, recent immigrants from Sicily. They had invented a water bicycle. They had wanted a patent. They had asked Mr. Applebaum to get it for them, then called frequently to see if it had come. Unable to comprehend the law's delay, by nature suspicious and cranky, Brother Pietro now drew a gun, shot Patent Attorney Applebaum to death...
...analysis this opportunity may be of positive benefit, but the medium of supervision and active direction in comprehensive intra-mural programs must play a large part in such development. A single director of intra-mural sports is hardly sufficient to produce a smoothly running system that must not only comprehend the body of undergraduates but the graduates of the various professional schools as well...
...Unable to comprehend the psychology of one who pursues the arts instead of following more gainful occupations," the Dreyfusses committed the sculptor-son to Bellevue Hospital's Psychopathic Ward last year. Here he was kept for six days in the company of ailing thugs and alcoholic cutups. After Bellevue he summered in the Asylum for the Insane on Ward's Island in the East River. Thence, because zealous friends were seeing him without the family's permission, he was transferred to the exclusive Dr. McDonald's Sanitarium at Central Valley, N. Y., where in durance grand...
Commissioned by the Obregon socialist-labor government to decorate buildings in a way peons could comprehend, he painted many frescoes devoted to a panorama of Mexican life. One of the charges against him is "desecration of public buildings" by use of "figures which, while not lacking in artistic perfection, nevertheless prove a shock to the conservative tastes of certain classes...
Japanese Ambassador M. Katsuji Debuchi, a true diplomat striving always to comprehend and reflect U. S. life. Short, plump, all smiles, he prides himself on his easy colloquial English...