Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lindbergh. "This book" he declares, with some slight inaccuracy, "is the same sort of thing. . . . Can form, story and music be brought together to present the conditions and issues of the abolition of war in a beautiful, vigorous and moving work of art, which will be well within the grasp and understanding of the ordinary film audience?" This book seeks to prove that, with expert manipulation, they can. Mr. Wells's audience would first be shown a primeval cave, views of the globe. North America, the Manhattan skyline, a skyscraper, then a view of one of the sky-scraper...
...Harvard undergraduates will dispute the contention that course examinations which require pure memorizing are of little permanent value. Nor will they deny that students can often accomplish more toward attaining a grasp of a given field of study through independent reading than through the fulfillment of an inelastic set of course requirements. The question which arises in connection with Mr. Fairbank's letter, printed else-where in these columns, is how far present conditions at Harvard over-emphasize course work and what benefits could be derived from a further reduction in course requirements--particularly those of Seniors...
...Author Merz of The Great American Band Wagon does not pretend to write a biography of Henry Ford. He illustrates instead the period of American development that is best illuminated by the highlights of Ford's career. The result is a logical piece of writing, efficient in its grasp of factual detail, but devoid of any great inspiration. Perhaps the subject matter is too familiar; perhaps the perspective too short. Unheralded by newspaper publicity, the first of the highlights were the successive experiments in mechanics that culminated in the historic Lizzy, Model T. For five years Model...
...first issue of The Harvard Progressive indicates the failure of its editors to grasp the possibilities offered by their undertaking. Not only is consideration of the student aspect of the field neglected, but the policy seems limited to the sensationalism of a large number of radical journals. In doing this The Progressive overlooks its most useful opportunity and allows a bitter air of personal and class feeling to become evident in the paper...
...funds. His rewards then may become extremely large, but to a great extent they are the rewards of years spent learning what the field is all about. After ten or fifteen years a partnership, a position as department manager, or some similarly remunerative work should be within his grasp...