Word: comprehendingly
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...most of our examinations are adapted to acertain little except knowledge, which tends to promote mere cramming; whereas the tests in the grass school of active life depend rather upon the ability to use information Surely examinations can be framed to measure not only knowledge, but the ability to comprehend and correlate what is known. In short, to test the grasp of a subject as a whole...
...advertise. That was where the head of the Lord & Thomas firm came in. Persuading manufacturers that of all advertising agencies Lord & Thomas was the only one for them was the colossal task of Albert D. Lasker, president. To know how he went about that task, and thus to comprehend how Lord & Thomas got in a position to inject all sorts of things into your life-Palmolive soap, Quaker Oats, Lucky Strike cigarets, Kotex,* among other things-you need a picture of the ruddy-faced German-Jew who, as a rich man's 15-year-old son in Galveston...
...this book are as shapeless as the mountains that obsess their author. There is either a tremendous and subtle artistry in this seeming shapelessness or else Mr. Lindsay is gifted with a rare instinct for the proper thing to do, an instinct so profound that he does not comprehend it himself or even realize that it is there...
Bonn Byrne, his place in literature, estimated and set down so that professors as well as financiers could comprehend it, is the subject of an essay which won the Freshman prize for excellence in English last week at Yale College. Its author is Paul, son of Andrew W. Mellon-recently elected to the busy and portentous staff of the daily newspaper of that university...
...narrow social and economic corner of it. He lacks the knack of forgetting the prejudices of his own trade, his own class, and his own particular country; he is incapable of seeing things whole. The historian who has undertaken to project his imagination into other times, to comprehend other customs and motives, is the more likely to achieve a similar vantage point in surveying the modern world. It is only the educated man who can cock an historical eye at his own times and the man who can do this is surely educated...