Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only does it develop a man's quickness and ability to coordinate his thoughts on the task at hand, but, above all, it teaches him the exact methods by which the big firms carry on their work in each branch of the business. It also gives him a wider grasp and knowledge of the whole field, and a broader outlook on the work in which he is not materially interested, than that of a man who immediately enters business and sticks to his own particular branch. The training is especially important for those wishing to enter the executive department...
...team entrained for New Haven Tuesday with an added confidence bred by its phenomenal victory over Dartmouth, but once again victory was snatched from its grasp by an Eli rally in the closing minutes. Gordon's all-around play was brilliant...
...handful of Crimson supporters to a high pitch of enthusiasm and evoked the praise of the most dyed-in-the-wool Eli sympathizers. It was distinctly a defeat with honor; but a defeat, even with honor, is scant comfort to the players who had victory so nearly within their grasp...
...easy to grasp the real magnitude of the meat producing industry in the United States, but a comparison may help to show how inconceivable it is. ... Suppose we have the 81,532,600 hogs slaughtered last year in a single drove. Allowing four feet as the length of a hog, in single file they would string out for 61,770 miles, or twice around the world at the equator with enough left over to reach from the North Pole to the southern end of South America. This same great drove would stand 21 abreast from New York to San Francisco...
...working people of the world will not be able to grasp it. ... For more than ten months the second onslaught of the illness continued. ... As the physicians bitterly remarked, the blood vessels were playing with our Lenin all the time...