Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very tall, stoop-shouldered, beak-nosed Chancellor of Austria, Monsignor Ignaz Seipel, unexpectedly assumed last week a somewhat malignant role, as he strove to grasp powers verging on the dictatorial...
...Professor Burkhard has made a wise decision. The views of beautiful Germany will make more convincing the impassioned descriptions of Rhenish scenery which occur so frequently throughout Germanic literature and which by their very reiteration often arouse an incident skepticism in the un travelled student. Perhaps more difficult to grasp than the appearance of the country position of the student to interpret side of a nation is an understanding of the nature of its people. A language as difficult for the average American as is German often encourages the rather superficial opinion that those whose native tongue it is must...
...tariff, stood in general for "a European philosophy . . ., state socialism," while he, the Republican, stood for "the American system of rugged individualism . . . diametrically opposed." It was a shrewd thing to try to do in the financial capital of the U. S. But it was a difficult speech to grasp. It seemed to overshoot the mark...
This vehicle, potent, has two seats at the rear in which soldiers squat, holding rifles with fixed bayonets. Two more soldiers cling to each side of the car by means of hand grips, while their free hands grasp the hilts of ugly, blue steel repeating pistols...
...voice has in some ways improved. She sang well as the mechanical bird in Stravinsky's Le Rossignol. She piped prettily through Mignon. But her big music has been little, the real art of singing something she has never seemed to grasp...