Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from Latin. ... I refuse to reveal my sources, but teachers of English in colleges and universities have told me that most of the boys who enter without Latin can't write an English sentence. They don't know the meaning of words. . . . They don't understand syntax...
...sounds in synopsis. But it unfortunately follows a story called "The Cottage With Ducks in Normandy," by Austryn Wainhouse. Towards the end of his tale, one of Wainhouse's characters, "faintly aware of some unbalance or maladjustment or something or other, tries very hard and with mighty sincerity to understand; he feels as if he should be compelled by all this display to know something; is all this some esoteric concert, some tragic sequence?" This passage sums up the reader's feelings perfectly. After wading through a series of nauseating images such as a basement where "guts ran knee deep...
...latest book to from from Conant's pen, "On Understanding Science" approaches its subject historically. The lives and work of leading scientists from the time of Aristotle to the atomic age are explored, to bring the reader a better appreciation of what research is and how he can understand it. Conant believes that no man is equipped to play a part in the world today without a knowledge of the basic principles and achievements of science...
...mother of two small boys, I find it hard to distinguish between pity and contempt when I read a statement like Mrs. Elmore's -"I am childless from choice" [TIME, March 10]-pity because she will never know or understand the pride and great happiness that can come only from watching one's own children grow and develop; contempt for her intolerance and ignorance and unsurpassed selfishness...
...honor, the archbishop's throne. When the service reached the new Nicene Creed (. . . "very God of very God, begotten not made, being of one substance with the Father, by whom all things were made. . .), an Arian heckler interrupted to protest. Old Anthony was puzzled. He did not understand the controversy very well, but he knew what he knew. Before a crowd tense with suppressed rationalism and electrified by his majestic presence, the saint arose...