Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stimulating leadership of Briand, their eyes are blinded by selfish nationalism to the pleas of all classes for peace. Saito's uncompromising demands for parity, Benes' threat of war in the Chamber of the League, Laval's antagonizing oratory, are all evidences of the failure of current diplomats to grasp to broader demands of statesmanship. Indeed, until they do learn to view the narrow policies of egoistic nationalism in the light of world harmony, international conferences are doomed to be sources of national jealousies rather than effective agencies for peace...
...CRIMSON could occupy in the University that I write. It is because I am convinced that there still remains a nucleus around which an honest, effective, force for good can be builded that I write. Therefore, with all the earnestness that I can muster, I urge you to grasp the opportunity which is yours. If the opportunity is utilized, you shall have a new birth of freedom, but only the truth can make you free. V. H. Kramer...
Sophisticated bankers asked for no more. But they were disappointed that President Roosevelt did not grasp more firmly the hand that Banker Reynolds had so handsomely extended. The President did not even acknowledge Banker Reynolds' speech. All he said was: "The time is ripe for an alliance of all forces intent upon the business of recovery. In such an alliance will be found business and banking, agriculture and industry, and labor and capital. What an all-American team that...
...reason, nevertheless, is economic, not political, and viewed impartially the situation furnishes, in its own way, an example of somewhat poetic justice. Furthermore it has the merit of being illustrated in such a form that even a Rotarian can grasp its significance. Whether Germany can afford to pay the million or so additional dollars which payment of 100 pfennigs on the mark would mean is beside the point, nor will aspersions on the integrity of the German Government or aides memoires suffice to raise the ante. The important thing is that while Germany undoubtedly has both the gold and dollar...
...statements but it has also pussy-footed on the question of the right to criticize. If the Bulletin felt we did not possess the right and said so, their stand is comprehensible. To meet the issue on the minor questions of adjectives and courtesy, however, shows a failure to grasp our purpose. We would have welcomed constructive suggestions but this article represents a narrow point of view which we hoped had died out of the University...