Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mold the persons who bear them into the proper types or, perhaps, names just happen to fit the individuals to whom they belong. "Homer" seems to have that certain something which can be attached to no other and the fact that Edward Everett Horton has been able to grasp the distinction of the name "Homer Bits", makes his current picture an unbounded success...
...feels, moreover, that governmental education should be within the grasp of all. "There should be," he says, "a course of public finance for every American citizen...
...Savage type bitterly and contemptuously complain, "Our Emperor is a businessman!" They should thank Ethiopia's stars. The astounding marvel is that Africa's unique Museum of Peoples has produced a businessman-with high-pressure publicity, compelling sales talk, the morals of a patent medicine advertisement, a grasp of both savage and diplomatic mentality, and finally with plenty of what Hollywood calls IT. The Emperor was "too smart" only once in 1935, when he tried by granting the Rickett Concession to Standard Oil to embroil the U. S. directly in Ethiopia's defense. In His Majesty...
...lowest ebb thus far. The Most Reverend Kyrillos, Abuna of Ethiopia's Coptic Christian Church, hailed the peace deal proposed by Britain & France as "Words of God." To the Abuna the great feature of The Deal was one scarcely noticed out-side Ethiopia but showing the grasp of native mentality applied by Mr. Maurice Drummond Peterson, technical expert of Britain's Foreign Office, in concocting The Deal. It provides that Italy must evacuate, surrender and restore to Ethiopia her Holy City of Aksum. "Praise be to God!" cried the Abuna. "Let the Holy Spirit descend upon these conditions...
...system allowing further training for older men and women who had to leave their schoolbooks to satisfy their pocketbooks. A system similar to that now in effect at Columbia was advocated. The purpose of this editorial is to show how such a scheme is within the University's immediate grasp...