Search Details

Word: comprehendible (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...order to obtain a more comprehend picture of the program, the committee sent out an equal number of questionnaires to students who did not participate in the seminars. The reactions of the group, plus information from the admissions folders and college academic records of the seminar participants are being processed for the committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 5% Of Students Respond to Poll About Seminars | 11/21/1962 | See Source »

...degree to the Old Man's. Even the student (whom Mr. Gordon took, as far as the text is concerned and not the production, to be helpless in the face of some great farce moving without him) too is guilty of an awful lack of understanding. He fails to comprehend the girl's neurotic hallucination at exactly those key places where his understanding of her predicament would have ended the cycle of antipathy and blind cruelty, rather than perpetuating it into forever...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ON STRINDBERG | 11/20/1962 | See Source »

...that these are in any way pale ghosts; the H.D.C. production well brings out how fine, tense, and enormously vital they are. The old Jacob Hummel, who must comprehend and dominate an ornate, almost Florentine, tangle of intrigue in the first and second acts, cows everyone in the Loeb with his knowledge of sin. "I've caused misery and been miserable myself," he says, "They must cancel each other...

Author: By Robert W. Gordon, | Title: The Ghost Sonata | 11/16/1962 | See Source »

Analysts were forced to apply standard political maxims to a situation in which precedents may not apply. All that was certain was that a powerful new factor, unsettling and emotional, would affect the U.S. voter-in ways that even he may not comprehend until he enters the voting booth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Politics: One Election Won | 11/2/1962 | See Source »

Political parties: 2. Voters: 54%. From tribal institutions and British rule, most Ghanaians comprehend representative government, but Moscow-leaning Kwame Nkrumah misrules country as autocracy. Opposition has only eight members in 112-seat Parliament, many more are in jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NEW, INDEPENDENT AFRICA: | 8/3/1962 | See Source »

Previous | 151 | 152 | 153 | 154 | 155 | 156 | 157 | 158 | 159 | 160 | 161 | 162 | 163 | 164 | 165 | 166 | 167 | 168 | 169 | 170 | 171 | Next