Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prime Minister of Japan procured an heir* (TIME, Aug. 15). You cannot imagine how impossible it would have been of me to explain to my group of children why that sort of thing is wrong in the United States and yet right in Japan. Their little minds would not grasp the distinction, obvious though it is ; and so I appeal to you to strike all such stories out of TIME. Will you? Otherwise I cannot promise to continue using TIME in my class...
...problems in the reading periods. The whole of this proposition depends upon the co-operation of professors, for professors may forget that they have equally zealous collegues who are liable to overestimate the limited energy of students. In all this we see the opportunity opened to the student, to grasp a course as a whole...
...Near East. Italy's interests traditionally demand her further expansion in the Adriatic and the Mediterranean; England and France with new interests and possessions, are naturally less ready than ever to permit the growth of a common rival, or to allow their own possessions to slip from their grasp in the name of any such principle as "self-determination," a principle to which lip service is considered sufficient...
...triumphs in feminine politics and sports may still have profited somewhat, even by the thin veneer of culture, she also leaves out of the question. The article proves nothing except that the whole question of higher education, its advantages and defects, is too broad for one mind too grasp, especially if that mind be more intent on satire than on sympathy...
Should onetime Governor Frank O. Lowden of Illinois be inclined to grasp at straw votes, he might be pleased and proud at the indications of the first such political weather-vane reported in the 1927-28 campaign...