Word: comprehendingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the aid of the titles, it is easy to comprehend most of the unfolding mystery of the Genesis theme as Kovarsky has conceived...
...impression that the act of reading, which used to be an appetite and a passion, is now thought to be rather 'infra dig' in people of intelligence; students make it a habit to settle on a very few authors, or, if possible, one author, whom, they undertake to comprehend entirely and to make their own; or to wait until they can conceive a 'problem' suitable to their talents before they read...
...wilderness want not the shining light of Christian wisdom. They contend that it is impossible to convert without the primary agency of grace. It is strongly felt that the savages have not had the preparation and education necessary to achieve grace, and that therefore they will be unable to comprehend or enjoy the abstruse doctrines which we must propound. Those who oppose the spreading of doctrine say that our construction of the Gospel will find the savage inert, with his wick untrimmed, unprepared for the marriage, and generally unannointed. They contend that our doctrine will fall upon barren ground...
India's ways have often been misunderstood in this country, as her neutralism too often appeared basically pro-Russian. Many times the fault has lain with the United States, which sought to comprehend international politics in terms only of "for" and "against." But with the last week Nehru's India has behaved in a manner as inconsistent by her own standards as it is unfriendly by ours, and her U.N. voting record on Hungary is a disappointment most of all to those who had esteemed Nehru highly...
Physicist Witcher lost his sight when he was five years old, but blindness did not slow him down appreciably. He graduated from Georgia Tech, won a Ph.D. at Columbia. For sight he substituted an amazing ability to comprehend by ear. He grasped with ease the meaning of equations that he could not see; he designed complicated machinery without being able to draw or read a blueprint. Sighted students watched with wonderment while he worked with dangerous power tools...