Word: fathoming
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Harvard's inability to fathom or stop the short underhand Dartmouth pass was another source of disappointment to Crimson supporters, for Fishman, Powers, and Hedges reeled off numerous gains on that play. Wells was so ruslied on his own passes and the receivers were so well covered that Harvard attempted but five passes and of that number completed only...
Peter the Great came to the throne of Russia quite literally through the grace of God, who was, it is true, substantially aided by the inability of the nation to fathom the devious method of Russian statecraft. Before him there had been a period which the Russians themselves have called, "The time of troubles." Anyone who has read the more gay Russian novels will realize how parlous bad must have been these times. After Peter, while the world was waiting for Catherine II, there ruled three weak women, two of them foreigners. They in turn were followed by a child...
...been in many outlandish places, done many outlandish things. Insatiably curious and unabashed, he has seen, done and told about things few other white men would. Wirkus looks upon blacks as children; Seabrook regards them as primitives, with primitive knowledge and dark secrets which no civilized man can fathom. A onetime reporter and short story writer, his reports of his own adventures have been bestsellers. He has lived with a Bedouin tribe, with Druses in the Arabian mountains, in a whirling-dervish monastery at Tripoli, with Yezidee devil worshipers in Kurdistan, with voodoo worshipers in Haiti. During...
Although Yale has announced that it will keep its baseball coach off the bench again this year, Harvard will discontinue the plan given a trial last year. The lack of experience and the inability of the players to fathom problems that require years of connection with the sport were given as reasons for Harvard's decision to put Coach Fred Mitchell back on the bench. Yale athletic authorities declared that the coach-less plan deserved another year's trial, and it will be used in all games expect the four played in the South during spring recess...
...coming of other vicarious amusements has made its problem more complex. The public was beginning to for get it. Boston audiences have never been particularly enthusiastic or acute. There are only a handful who prefer the legitimate parent to the illegitimate son. The ruck are either too dull to fathom the sensible, or too untutored to follow the trivial...