Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bankrupt Europe-particularly her bankrupt aristocracy-sees her priceless art treasures slipping from her grasp by those pitiless economic forces which have made New York the financial capital of the world. The alarming inroads have roused Governments. Lord Curzon in a public speech said many valuable works in Britain's private libraries were crossing the Atlantic. American imports of paintings, etchings and antiques from London only for the first six months of 1923 were $3,716,644, and will probably exceed $8,000,000 for the year. Sir Wilfrid Hart Sugden, Unionist M. P. for Lancashire, broached the subject...
...chanting a hymn to the Sun, our land and our people may be saved from shriveling up like fried bacon. Certainly drastic steps must be taken immediately; and as long as the weather-man has proved himself a mere pawn of the gods, the New Englanders must once more grasp their fate in their own hands...
...knowledge in school. Scientific evolution had developed so fast that men's minds have been overwhelmed. Education must in this critical situation combine in men the faculty of doing with a sense of understanding of those things which are being accomplished. The mind must be developed until it can grasp the meaning of phenomena about...
After a long and bloody running fight of guerilla warfare, dynamiting, burning and wrecking, Eamon de Valera has at last thrown his cards upon the Free State table. How this man, often reported captured or wounded, has eluded the government's grasp so long and fought on against ever increasing odds passes comprehension. Whether his object was dictated by mere selfish ambition or by fanatical zeal, even those who have no liking for him must pay some respect to his stubborn courage. But he has now withdrawn his foreign ambassadors, proclaimed a cessation of hostilities, and produced his conditions...
...understand how to win. Form may be an excellent thing but the layman has a habit of discounting it after the first three miles in favor of plain guts, and though it is not always easy to see clearly or think distinctly at New London one thing simple to grasp would be a Harvard crew crossing the finish first. There are many kinds of systems. Some are too new, others too old. There is too little of some and too much of others. But the only system that merits support is a winning system...