Word: comprehendible
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...good Professor fails to comprehend that religion collectively has been one of the greatest psychic factors in the molding of human history, not the least evil of which has been Christianity. Religion is a man-made stumbling block...
...took me some doing to comprehend the meaning of the emblem that headed your REPORT FROM THE WORLD [TIME, Jan. 6; Jan. 20]. In the beginning it did not make much sense. . . . But after studying it for a while it suddenly came clear [that] those "symbols" were contoured likenesses of the members of a global round-table conference...
...Esperanto salesman. He has the same high purpose, the same rosy vision, the same conviction that all it needs is a try. This collection of his slick New Yorker editorials ("they were written sometimes in anger and always in haste"), will appeal mostly to readers who clearly comprehend such a touchstone as: "Meantime we will continue to believe that although a man may have to compromise with Russia he can never compromise with truth...
...much to say about the success of movies as they do about legitimate stage attempts, "The Big Sleep" would already be mouldering in its grave. Crowther and company slashed at it for "incoherence" as they gave it thumbs down with a typical sneer. What they failed to comprehend was that this latest Bogart-Bacall opus thrills while it confuses and is likely to leave its audiences just as interested as bewildered...
...Paris, too, Secretary Daniels saw the beginnings of the "sabotaging [of] world peace" by Wilson's opponents. Intensely loyal to his old chief ("the easiest man to comprehend . . . utterly frank and genuine"), he bowls over Wilson's opponents and disaffected friends one by one, from Henry Cabot Lodge and George Harvey to Secretary of State Lansing and the mysterious Colonel House. Said Wilson once: "I have reached the conclusion that [Ambassador] Walter [Hines] Page is the damndest fool we ever appointed. Don't you agree?" His Navy Secretary shook his head...