Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Representatives, Senators, Capital correspondents and the President of the U. S. By week's end the TVA family row, like the Great Boyg which oppressed Ibsen's hero Peer Gynt, was beginning to seem a tantalizing something at once too big to ignore and too shapeless to grasp...
...field inspired other ventures in landscape. There comes Hendrik Goltzins, the engraver, whose two woodcut prints in great boldness of line, alone of all the early examples could be safely hung beside the strength of the "Cannon." There also was Augustin Hirschvogel, the etcher, whose print betrays the limited grasp of landscape forms in his day and there is Lautensack who loses himself in the struggle to record the whole tangle of a forest...
...ideals of the League are grand and magnificent, and I'll never believe they are not ultimately attainable, but we cannot bring them nearer by pretending they are within our grasp today. Why should we mislead them by giving people assurance of 'collective security' when such assurance can only be a delusion...
With the championship secure in its grasp, Dartmouth played a ragged game throughout, which may be partially attributed to the loss of their regular center, Dudis. With the exception of a short period midway in the first half, the Crimson was never headed and left the floor for the half-time rest with a 29-25 lead...
...author shows good grasp of the essential problems and the premises from which the techniques of "popular enlightenment" are derived. He correctly "perceives in the exercise of political power the operation of psychological quite as much as physical influences." What he does not always perceive, however, is the danger of a rationalist orientation turning categorical...