Word: comprehends
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most urbane and influential Catholic priests.* Published in the U. S. this week was Monsignor Knox's latest book, Let Dons Delight.†. To many a reader, Catholic and non-Catholic, this work will bring delight. To others, including many U. S. Catholics who find it difficult to comprehend the lightheartedness and apparent irreverence of their European coreligionists, the book will be shocking...
...apparent that you do not comprehend or understand the reasons for the resentment expressed against your remarks concerning Father Coughlin. Both the original article [TIME, Jan. 30] and your editorial comment in the Feb. 13 issue are in extremely bad taste and grievously offensive to me and all Roman Catholics...
...social ideology, makes a confused subject even more bewildering by applying the test-writing technique to his illustrations of Whitman's philosophies; that is, bringing in carloads of quotations by contemporaries and barrels of erudite anecdotes concerning every figure, literary or otherwise, which supposedly aid the reader to comprehend Whitman's attitude...
...century England. Written in beautifully flowing, powerful, yet childishly simple language, they are considered perhaps the best satires in English. It is indeed a cruel sarcasm--and society's revenge on the author--that his best works should now be beloved only of children who read vacantly, failing to comprehend the purpose of the writings...
...most obvious step is the syllabus, which, a la History 1, contains a full outline of the year's work. With a complete picture painted in advance, the course need no longer blunder and stumble from one point to the next, and students, as well as section men, can comprehend the purpose and place of each component part as they could not in the past. Another syllabus-baby, pretty enough to be carefully nurtured in Government 1 and adopted elsewhere, is the reprinting of excerpts from books which would otherwise have to be purchased. Less spectacular but of equal importance...