Word: comprehending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...college men could see that prohibitionists have nothing to gain from their beliefs, and that they are entirely sincere and unselfish in their attempts to improve this country, then these students would be able to comprehend the whole situation more clearly," he said. At present one-third of the nation is dry and believing this to be the best for the whole country; another third is wet purely for its own benefit, and the remaining third is puzzled. If this last third could be enlightened, and show what the wets are really after, prohibition would be assured of success...
...specialized scholar is bound by the same chains. He knows the meaning of his facts in only a limited sense. For meaning comes from understood relationships, and the specialist often ignores the relation of the basic principles of his subject to those of another field. He fails, accordingly, to comprehend the larger meaning of his work; he misses the essential point of fitting his facts into a complete pattern, of seeing their effect on life...
...human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotism. It is enough for me to contemplate the mystery of conscious life perpetuating itself through all eternity . . . and to try humbly to comprehend even an infinitesimal part of the intelligence manifested in nature...
...crass outsider did not comprehend this Latin irony, the Cambridge Union was cosily content. Soon with even heavier irony a Cambridge lightweight rose to defend Chicago. Small, spindly Debater Robert Egerton Swartwout (he weighs 105 Ib.) boomed out in an amazing bass voice. The same voice last year barked the Cambridge crew to victory over Oxford (TIME, April 21, 1930). Swartwout was Cambridge's first U. S. coxswain. Son of Manhattan Architect Egerton Swartwout, he went to Cambridge (Trinity College) seven years ago, became a wit, contributed to Punch. Also he developed the ironic humor that is the pride...
...which foreign ships squeeze out of the wages of those who build them and operate them are no less subsidies because they are taken from labor alone than are government payments to ships, to which payments the people as a whole contribute. Is anyone so dull that he cannot comprehend this obvious fact? Why then do critics of our policy ignore...