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Last week a vital, thick-set man with hair ruffled by nervous fingers, lectured in German and chalked hieroglyphics on a lecture room blackboard at University College, Nottingham, England. The Nottingham faculty and many a distinguished guest sat and listened intently, though only three of them could begin to comprehend the discourse. When the man finished they asked him to autograph the blackboard. He complied. Then the wise men of Nottingham had the blackboard varnished and stored away as a memento. The name scrawled on it is Albert Einstein...
...According to Santa Rosa folks, the whole community is all agog over Balbinb's pregnancy. They are at loss to comprehend the pregnancy of the man. The news about Balbino traveled fast and wide in Opon. and Balbino is the talk...
...eyeball, each crook of the finger, has definite significance. A Chinese actor succeeds to the extent that he masters this vast, intricate bodily symbolism, the medium of an art far older than Shakespeare's. Mei Lan-fang knew, as he thought it over, that U. S. audiences would only comprehend the simplest elements of his plays as described in an English synopsis, that beyond that he must depend for success on the chance that he could kindle in his discerners some intuitive appreciation of what to them would be new, wholly foreign beauties. Socially he was well sponsored...
...called upon by two of his clients, the brothers Leonardo and Pietro Danna, recent immigrants from Sicily. They had invented a water bicycle. They had wanted a patent. They had asked Mr. Applebaum to get it for them, then called frequently to see if it had come. Unable to comprehend the law's delay, by nature suspicious and cranky, Brother Pietro now drew a gun, shot Patent Attorney Applebaum to death...
...analysis this opportunity may be of positive benefit, but the medium of supervision and active direction in comprehensive intra-mural programs must play a large part in such development. A single director of intra-mural sports is hardly sufficient to produce a smoothly running system that must not only comprehend the body of undergraduates but the graduates of the various professional schools as well...