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...When she finds a word she likes or doesn't understand, she looks it up in every available dictionary and studies every possible meaning and use for it. Some of the words she does not fully comprehend, but she learns how to use them...
...hours of the last Congress, the Committee was authorized to make an investigation into the administration of the Department of the Interior with the special purpose of looking into the matter of grazing on the public lands. But the Committee has decided that its authority is wide enough to comprehend investigation of reclamation projects, the forestry bureau and timber lands, water power development, mining and probably national parks and Indian affairs as well-all matters in the province of the Department of the Interior. On Aug. 26, it will start like a great Juggernaut upon its inquisitorial path...
...President recounted "scraps of territorial history" because "unless we keep them in mind we shall not at all comprehend. . . ." He used one quotation : "I remember to have read somewhere, I think in the writings of the historian Lecky*, the observation that...
Antioch and other educational experiments are important and interesting because they show that education is not static, but they can never comprehend all of education and religion. The elder universities will continue in cloistered seclusion to prepare students for life, is Antioch prepares them in the midst of life...
...Sturly did not comprehend. Now grown a mail-clad Titan of 500 pounds, he sounded back into the black-glimmering, life-bearing abysses where it seemed all truth must be hidden. He searched the shimmering shoals and sea-gardens of all the oceans, as it is a Sturgeon's destiny to do. He knew all the fish, which ate which, and observed how the vast submarine cosmoplasm is also a vast necropolis...