Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their discussions, such as the intellectual status of the undergraduate, or the advisability of placing drinking fountains in Mallinckrodt, or the necessity of forcing conformity on the faces of Memorial Hall clock. They will go to the present bull session, and there find subjects suited to the intelligence and grasp of the college student, and lurid enough to hold his wandering inner gaze. If these matters be important and serious, well and good; if not, still well and good, for no one will discern the difference or care...
...that is false. Mr. Philbrick's meaning is only that he doesn't like capitalist art, which is quite all right, but something other than a law of nature. And his peroration is dubious. "This leaves us the Revolutionary ideal of the emancipation of mankind from the Capitalist grasp as the only inspiration for a really vital art in the present and future." I protest, as a connoisseur of prophecy. Mr. Philbrick can see into the future no farther than John Doe and I, and anyone who cared to predict the exact opposite would be just as right...
Last winter, after the Chancellorship had several times eluded Adolf Hitler's pudgy grasp, Herr Strasser, then National Organizer of the Nazi Party, decided that the fumble was likely to be permanent. Ambitious, he called secretly upon the then Chancellor, sly Lieut.-General Kurt von Schleicher, famed as "His Field Grey Eminence." Somehow or other Leader Hitler learned what Strasser and Schleicher were plotting, summoned Nazi storm troop leaders and Deputies from all over Germany to an historic Party meeting in Berlin. "Comrades," said the Leader gravely, "according to information in my possession Strasser told von Schleicher that...
...Reed, and his fellow Republicans in Chicago, are angry because they had to surrender the key to their enfiefed barn before the first of the month. The point they miss, the point the Supreme Court missed, the point our legislators miss is so elementary that their refusal to grasp it must be disingenuous. Why should the divorce of our civil service from politics stop just on the threshold of social utility? Why should every office sufficiently exalted to arrest the interest of a capable man, or well paid enough to support him, remain in the grab bag of our party...
...same things, and each year an increasing number of men among the faculty have doubted that they should do them. Certainly there is no real reason for the postponement of these examinations past the Sophomore year. At that time, before the student has entered upon his specialized work, his grasp of the fundamentals of his field should be assured. The Department of History and Literature has divided these examinations in such a way that the student may take one of them in his Sophomore year, and members of the department state that Sophomores taking them frequently write better papers than...