Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some two years later, the Briey basin came once again within the potential grasp of the French. Throughout the second battle of Verdun. Briey was within range of the operations of the French Second Army. The Briey mines and smelters were turning out tons of raw materials per day which were being continuously turned into weapons of death against French troops, and the naive civilian would therefore suppose that the French Second Army would new into loose its bombing planes and blast out of existence a principal source of enemy supply...
...moving spirit, is, however, difficult to grasp. The conditions of life have developed in primitive man a set of human reactions and adjustments so alien to our intellectual solutions that we can never completely understand them. His art is also so much the outgrowth of the traditional imaginative system of the group that we find its determining factors far removed from...
...understand thoroughly how the system of concentration has evolved, one must consider what the demands of education are today. Is it as useful for the student to scrape the surface of knowledge, even though the general grasp appears most important to him, as it is for him to gain a fairly workable ground-work of some specific field? Undoubtedly, the most important element gained from a college education is the method of thinking which enables the student to get immediately to the crux of a problem. The ordinary graduate faces detailed and intricate questions which he must be able...
...admittedly incomplete information, it would appear that Japan feels the moment appropriate to extend the claims made in the Twenty-one Demands of 1915. Thwarted at that time, chiefly by untimely publicity, in her endeavors to establish a virtual protectorate over China, she managed deftly to acquire a strangling grasp on certain important Chinese economic interests, such as the Han-Yehping mines, as well as significant privileges in Manchuria. Her recent advances in this tremendously important region need no comment, and these are being supplemented by subterranean movements in Mongolia and Sinkiang. From these it would appear, with little exaggeration...
...that in Special Studies does not offer an adequate or equitable initiative requisite for each. Under the present system of course selection, emphasis clearly should be placed on the field of concentration. Thus a system of honors which does not take into account the candidate's broader grasp of his field as evidenced by his general examination, his interest as manifested in tutorial work, and his originality and initiative as demonstrated by his honors' thesis, must be considered obsolescent...