Word: comprehend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attempt to keep that promise turned out to be far more difficult, exciting-and welcome-than the innocent simplicity of 1923 foretold. Before the quarter-century was done, TIME had tried to comprehend and convey the color, drama and meaning of such far-flung complexities as gangsterism, Franz Kafka, swing music, fancy funerals, Wallis Simpson, Marxism, aerial warfare, soap operas, Arnold Toynbee,* Barbara Hutton, the British spirit, Theodore Bilbo, Chen Li-fu, the Townsend Plan, Suzanne Lenglen, currency devaluation, Aldous Huxley, atomic fission, Jimmy Walker and the Supreme Court...
...short for unfolding more delightful experiences while serving on the Board of Editors of the CRIMSON. The best way to get in touch with undergraduate life at Harvard is to and graduates, just as undergraduates, who wish to keep in touch with the great Harvard living force and to comprehend its influence and service to American life, should "read, ponder, and inwardly digest" the Harvard Alumni Bulletin. The CRIMSON and the Bulletin combine to reflect the life of a great University which had a unique place in American life for more than 300 years...
...waste of time for most high-school students to read Il Penseroso, Ivanhoe, Silas Marner and other compulsory classics. It would be enough for many to secure "sufficient competence in reading to comprehend newspapers and magazines reasonably well." Only a gifted few can achieve any real understanding of algebra or geometry. It should, therefore, be a matter of choice whether a student takes algebra, literature, Latin, foreign languages...
...students of engineering and physics . . . comprehend and appreciate the statics of the system, but we are at a loss to account for the phrase "distortion point 310°." Does the 310° refer to angular measure and if so, is the plane of distortion horizontal or vertical? Or does it refer to temperature, and if so, is the scale Fahrenheit, Centigrade, or Kelvin? If the scale is Kelvin, we look with breathless anticipation to certain conditions to which the system must eventually be subjected...
...good Professor fails to comprehend that religion collectively has been one of the greatest psychic factors in the molding of human history, not the least evil of which has been Christianity. Religion is a man-made stumbling block...