Word: comprehend
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Japan disputes over the years, concerning everything from auto shipments to whaling, this latest dustup may be the hardest to comprehend. Baseball is, after all, an American game. If the Japanese didn't want to learn from an American umpire, then why did they ask him to get behind home plate...
...sure you wouldn't have been able to comprehend the frustration of Coach Joe Walsh after going 1-5 in his last six games against Princeton, and of the possibility of losing the Ivy League title again to the Tigers...
...Every religion," as the great scholar of the world's belief systems, Huston Smith, points out, "mixes universal principles with local peculiarities," and the latter, he goes on, "are not easy for outsiders to comprehend." Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church was more often described as a "cult" before it took over 375 organizations (and Jim Jones' People's Temple is sometimes considered a church that devolved into a cult). As Scientologists do battle with the government in Germany, they could point out that religion apparently comes from the Latin religare, or "to bind"; cult comes from the Latin cultus...
...could have a permanent location in better communication with the College public service staff, was envisioned long before Dean Kidd's appointment. Your argument against this move--that PBHA should retain isolated and exclusive dominion over this precious space in Harvard Yard because people might not be able to comprehend that two different organizations were in one building--is absurd on its face. But rather than attempting to answer the various individual fallacies in your letter, I will make just a few general points...
...argument would be extremely compelling to me if I were an American Jew--especially given the centuries-old historical pattern of Jewish oppression. Indeed, this argument is intriguing to me as a young black man for many of the same reasons. However, what Danilewitz's argument fails to fully comprehend--and what many in America seem not to want to talk about--is the very real history that also shapes how blacks in America react to various issues and experiences (such the O.J. Simpson trials, the Million Man March, and the Crown Heights incident). Danilewitz's own example of Jews...