Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...talks and discussions will provide an opportunity for the student delegates to get a comprehensive grasp of the economic, political, and psychological causes of war and bulwarks of peace and will help them to become constructive forces in the maintenance of peace for future generations...
...particular more use might be made of theses, long reports calculated to test undergraduate grasp of particular problems. The conditions under which a thesis is written, sufficiency of time and availability of reference material, are ideal for the production of an adequate piece of work. The report of substantial length furnishes what the examination often lacks: an opportunity for original thinking. Already, candidates for distinction are required to submit a capable thesis before receiving their honors. And the research methods of graduate work are simply an elaboration of the same system...
...batting order with an average of .365 which is five points better than Captain Todd, who bettered its mark during the week with two good days at the plate against Holy Cross and Princeton Zarakov, the flashy third baseman, climbed 12 points in the ranking and retains his grasp on the third rung of the hitting ladder...
...striking example is the recent report on education by the Student Council Committee. These young men show a surprising grasp of the fundamental problems of education, as well as the particular problems of Harvard. Undoubtedly Oxford undergraduates could, produce an equally constructive criticism of their university, but they never have and would not be listened to if they did. Undergraduates over there accept the "system" without question, although not their teachers' pet ideas...
Davies makes in this picture one of her occasional appearances on the screen and intensifies the impression that she is an exceptionally capable comedienne. Perhaps her grasp of emotional acting is less secure; there is so little of it in Beverly that it doesn't matter. Miss Davies plays a girl, in one of those romantic phantom kingdoms, who masquerades for her cousin the Prince...