Word: comprehend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...difficult concept, which even today few laymen and not all scientists fully comprehend. Furthermore, measuring the speed of light is so difficult that the Michelson-Morley experiment and its successors left a nagging possibility that when better apparatus was developed, it might yet detect some trace of an ether wind...
...hold itself high above the herd--to appear in print only at birth, death, and marriage, as it were--but, like the lady said, times have changed. Perhaps Harvard students need to enjoy the sensation of the intellectually competitive experience that "College Bowl affords, in order truly to comprehend the world in which they perforce will move. It is all very well for young people to flirt with individuality and rugged independence, but when they get out of college they will have to learn that in this world we must conform--if the other boys push buttons on a quiz...