Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Naturally the Chinese, who grasp eagerly for any straws in the international wind, were elated last week. As the British stiffened in Hong Kong, blowing up bridges joining the Crown Colony with Japanese-held territory, the Japanese simultaneously weakened in Shanghai, where 6,000 troops had been landed with the announced intention of "taking some action against the International Settlement." The troops took no action. In Tientsin, the Japanese were washed out by the worst flood in the city's history. The Chinese gave the Japanese a setback on their own in Shansi Province, where the Japanese have been...
Perhaps weary Henry Agard Wallace "toiling like Tantalus in Hades" is merely logrolling; or maybe the pork suspended above him and the slush about him disappear as he is about to grasp them...
...birthday honors list. Forgiven, if not forgotten was his 40-year-old gibe: "Knighthood is a cheap commodity these days. It is modern Royalty's substitute for largesse and it is scattered broadcast. Though all would sneer at it, there are few whose hands would not gladly grasp the dingy patent...
Contrary to popular opinion, said Dr. Goldstein to his colleagues last week, the brain does not grasp simple, single objects first, but understands things only as parts of larger patterns. Many patients suffering from injuries of the cortex (most highly complex section of the brain) cannot use or understand any isolated words, symbols or objects. For example, certain patients who have brain injuries, but who appear normal in their behavior, when handed a knife, are unable to give it a name. But when handed a knife with a potato, they promptly cry: "That's a potato peeler...
...fact that the English department teaches competition and that students exempt from English A are expected to write clear prose, but the Committee recommends that "every other department should insist that ideas be clearly and correctly expressed before they are accepted are evidence that the student possesses an adequate grasp of the subject...