Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...awards, too, carry large enough stipends to permit extensive travel between term times. Thus the student can cover a variety of territory, with which he might otherwise never come in contact, and get a grasp of foreign ideals and customs that will give him a keener insight to domestic problems in America. These scholarships form an integral part of the Harvard educational scheme. It is hoped that the capable and worthy will not leave them to the halt and the blind simply because they are too lazy or preoccupied to get their applications in on time...
...British commander considered that he had Madrid definitely in his grasp after he took Talavera de la Reina in the year 1809. Last week, after Talavera de la Reina had been changing hands for days in desperate engagements between Red Militia and the Whites (TIME, Sept. 21), an entire fleet of German bombing planes with German pilots and German bombs went into action and Generalissimo Franco's ground forces occupied Talavera de la Reina in a manner sufficiently decisive to have suited even the Duke of Wellington. After this victory Madrid was only 45 miles from Generalissimo Franco...
...modern "era of communication," universities and university trained men must grasp the responsibility of guiding public opinion more and more. But unless the universities can keep clear of governmental interference and maintain the right to think and speak what they believe regardless of popular prejudice, training men to guide the people will become little more than a mockery. To preserve their vital liberties, universities depend on the support of the press. It is encouraging to find a leader of the newspaper industry awake to the need of guarding academic freedom and dedicating at least one section of the press...
...situation based on ingrown prejudice rather than fact. We thereupon begin to worry and "the moment a man begins to worry he imperils his mind." The symptoms are plain. "There is no isolation so poignant as that which worry brings. At such a time life slips from our grasp, average contacts no longer assure us, people become strangers, to whom we talk across an unseen gulf. Smiles that .'Drought comfort somehow mock us, as if the world had become a pantomime and our intimates the weriest shadows. The day's routine stretches like a solitary waste; there...
Swimmer: Gee, I just can't grasp that I'm in a palace talking to royalty. Why Prince, you're so human-just like we other folks. I never thought you looked so young or could act so natural. I came into this room trembling all over. You made me feel at home immediately...