Word: comprehendingly
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...bill for the next installment, asked, "How often does a man have to pay for the same thing in h'England?" On Tristan da Cunha, the only wage-earning job was in the local crayfish cannery, where everyone got the same pay. In England, the visitors could not comprehend the idea of different pay rates for different jobs. Argued one: "H'it h'ain't fair. They's not payin' me for no job. They's payin' me for one man's time. My time's wuth as much...
...complex problems by naively facile means. From one point of view this may be quite true. One does indeed find it difficult in the mid-20th century to envisage the actualization of a conservative tenet such as total laissez-faire. But taken alone, this interpretation of conservatism fails to comprehend the almost subtle philosophical rationality behind the movement...
Judah Stampfer, an assistant professor of English at New York State University, who should know better, has written a grievously long short-story entitled Jonah. Stampfer clearly understands how to construct English sentences; he does not, however, know when to stop. Nor does he comprehend the least thing about plotting a story...
...Mauer bleibt" -the Wall remains, and will remain. Julius Cardinal Döpfner. Roman Catholic Archbishop of Munich, observed: "One can understand why countless people are afraid of Christmas Eve; because on that very evening all the misery of our divided families will break out. Then many will comprehend how high the Wall...
...form any clear view of the book from many of its various parts taken separately is impossible, but it seems almost equally so when they are taken together. To comprehend just realize that Tropic is hardly a book at all, but a personality. Quite simply, the incidents and the monologues are the author's life (metaphorically if not literally) and are designed only to reveal him. Miller's personality is the sum and essence of his book. It is a terribly vivid personality. And if we give up the vain attempt to shove his book similiar pigeon-hole labelled "nihilist...