Word: comprehendingly
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...reinforce these senses by stressing touch techniques. Children make human and animal figures out of clay to get a clearer conception of spatial relationships, work with big Masonite squares and circles to get a grip on geometric symbols. They stand on one foot and hold out their arms to comprehend the ideas of leftness and rightness. They manipulate letters that have been fashioned from pipe cleaners, feel the shapes with their eyes closed as the teacher pronounces the letter's sound. The aim, says Mrs. McGlannan, is to blend sight, sound and touch in order to straighten out jumbled...
Invisible Supermen. Why has God become so hard to believe in, so easy to dismiss as a nonbeing? The search for an answer begins in the complex?and still unfinished?history of man's effort to comprehend the idea that he might have a personal creator...
Just as Galileo set the stage for Sir Isaac Newton, who compiled the laws of planetary motion and gravitation, Schmidt and his colleagues are forcing their contemporaries to exercise their inventive imaginations merely to comprehend what the great observatories have seen, and the clues collected from faint spectrograms may lead science into a new era of understanding. If astronomers can find an explanation for the birth of quasars, they may yet be able to find the secrets of Creation itself; and if physicists become familiar with the mechanics of elemental reac tions far out at the boundaries of perception, they...
...that computer-made maps could be extremely useful in nearly every field where visual display of data is possible. He said that researchers often compile mountains of data but limitations of time and money generally prevent them from converting the data into maps. It is practically impossible to comprehend spatially distributed data when it is presented in tables, he added...
...analysis of the current situation in Indonesia and three book reviews complete the issue. Any attempt to comprehend Indonesian politics is welcome, and Henry S. Parker '68 describes accurately the mysterious events of the attempted coup last October. He presents the ultimate challenge faced by the Army leaders in control: to unify and nationalize Indonesia on a basis of economic and social progress. This is a goal which Sukarno, for all his chauvinism, failed to achieve. The choice of books to be reviewed, two interpretations of the Vietnam conflict by war correspondents Robert Shaplen and Marguerite Higgins and Richard Hofstadter...