Word: comprehendingly
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...literature, and who was to do it? One by one the post-war men of letters are held up for scrutiny and found wanting. Each failed to realize the task before him, or realizing it, fled from it. The sectionalists, Bret Harte, Mark Twain, Eggleston and Cable, did not comprehend the whole. The fugitives, Sarah, Orne Jewett, Henry James, Emily Dickinson, sought sanctuary in trifling worlds of their own. William Dean Howells sounded the right note, but was too limited in experience and ability to be successful. The genteel writers of the nineties merely catered to bourgeois prejudices. Then came...
...society girls, political ward heelers, postmen, newspaper circulation solicitors, even school children went from door to door, reciting little set speeches about "putting more men to work and increasing buying power." Most householders quickly agreed to do their buying at Blue Eagle shops but few of them pretended to comprehend the economics of the campaign. Here & there an oldtime "rugged individualist" loudly refused to go along. By last week the following Big Names had signed up as Blue Eagle consumers...
...Conference Delegate Key Pittman found himself marooned in the palace courtyard. The tall iron gates were locked. The imposing Grenadier Guards in their massive bearskin hats refused to do any unlocking. Senator Pittman pleaded to be let out. After long argument, the Grenadier Guards, still unable to comprehend why Delegate Pittman should not have been called for by his own car if he really was a person of such importance, grudgingly let him escape and hail a taxi...
...when I had analyzed the communication published at the head of TIME'S "Letters" column, issue May 22. As the signer is a close kin of mine I am overcome with a sense of responsibility. How such an undiplomatic note crept by the family censor I cannot comprehend, but it is not for me to offer excuses. To Secretary of Treasury Woodin, Colonel Louis McHenry Howe and TIME'S artist, who were mentioned in the same passage with "Australian Bushman" and "Bloodhound," humblest apologies. The distinguished Treasury head, Colonel Howe and the muse who instills magnetism in TIME...
Doubting Pauls have been unable to comprehend that Re-Thinking Missions, published last winter by the Rockefeller-sponsored Laymen's Foreign Missions Inquiry, gave a true picture of Christianity's status in the Orient. To confirm that picture, the Inquiry last week supplied them with Volume V of its source books-a combined volume of facts on Baptist, Congregational, Dutch Reformed, Episcopalian, Methodist and Presbyterian missions in China...