Word: comprehend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nation that has hitched its destiny to the star of education and pours billions of dollars into the enterprise is collectively crazy if it does not try to find out the result of all this effort. We don't know whether most ninth-graders can read and comprehend a typical newspaper paragraph, whether most high school graduates know more or less about more or fewer things than high school graduates did 20 years...
Ambivalence. In her more introspective moments, Julie suffers the familiar agony of one who has risen high but cannot comprehend the forces that lifted her. She sees a psychoanalyst once a week ("My Ju? Bloody nonsense," huffs her mother. "Of course, you understand we still look on them as quacks in England"). Says Julie: "I needed some answers, and I think I'd have been a rotten mother without analysis." She is concerned about "the real me. I have an absolutely fearful temper. I always get upset when people don't get on with the job at hand...
...answer is that if the Minotaur cannot fully comprehend the maze, neither can the viewer, who remains trapped in the paintings' distortion and violence. Thus Picasso's work continues to evoke both anger and adulation from critics and the public alike. But it is the fact that the world still tries to comprehend, despite a sense of outrage and shock, that is the final gauge of Picasso's genius...
...School Ph.D. candidate. It is here that Cramer perfected a process to compress speech by deleting small word segments. Previous experimenters had attempted to speed speech by retaping it at a faster rate -- producing only unintelligible Donald Duck gabblings. But Cramer's process enables the listener to hear and comprehend up to 1000 words per minute...
...pilots and control tower operators who must communicate through noise interference. Cramer has discovered that a listener tends, as he hears another person speak to latch on to certain tonal qualities in the speaker's voice. As he listens, he will be able to hear and comprehend what the person is saying even through noise interference. With this in mind, instead of speeding speech to save time, Cramer has developed a process to "delay" it for the sake of intelligibility and comprehension. Through experience, a pilot will hear a sentence on the left, say, slightly before he hears the same...