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There's a corner of the visitors' locker room at Brown which John Yovicsin will never forget. After the Brown game two years ago, he sat there and stared at the floor while trying to comprehend a 24-17 loss to Brown. And Saturday morning Joe Kironski will mop down the same corner for Joe Restic...
...most practical and level-headed kin. You probably don't remember the long walks and talks Papa and I used to have...But I remember. He used to say things, probably just thinking aloud, sure that I wasn't listening or would not comprehend. But I did, and I think I knew him better than most. Do you remember how I used to answer "What" to every question put to me, and how Papa would deride me for this? He later in the course of our exchanges taught me to answer questions with "Why" instead of "What...
Atomic Clocks. The paradox, which stems from Einstein's 1905 Special Theory of Relativity, is difficult for the layman to comprehend and even harder for scientists to prove. It means that time itself is different for a speeding automobile, for example, than for one parked at the curb. The natural vibrations of the atoms in the engine of the moving auto, the movement of the clock on the dashboard and even the aging of the passengers occur more slowly than they do in the parked car. These changes are imperceptible at low terrestrial speeds, however, and according...
...cannot comprehend their passion or the reason they cannot marry. He is glad enough of their friendship and eager for their approval as "our post-man." But Leo is not strong enough to keep their confidence. Marian's mother (Margaret Leighton) humiliates the boy into revealing the secret, and the messenger of their passion becomes the instrument of their destruction...
...haven for religious enthusiasts whom he sometimes does not fully comprehend. He says: "There is no place left where they can go and sort themselves out unless the churches are open. They do an enormous amount of praying, sometimes in the lotus position. One young man comes in and plays the bass recorder. He and God have some relationship over a bass recorder. I don't understand it, but that's his thing...