Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...carrying water on both shoulders is highly developed in American politics and Mr. Roosevelt has learned it. ... [He] is a highly impressionable person, without a firm grasp of public affairs and without very strong convictions. ... He is not the dangerous enemy of anything ... no crusader ... no tribune of the people ... no enemy of entrenched privilege. He is a pleasant man who, without any important qualifications for the office...
...front rank of legal scholars, and for two generations upon the bench he has been the leader to whom American teachers of law have looked not only for expositions of the law in his opinion but for far-reaching suggestions in his published papers and addresses. With an assured grasp upon the authoritative legal materials of the past, he has had a clear sense of the legal problems of the present and immediate future and a vision of the path which the law is taking in order to cope with those problems. He leaves an enduring mark upon American...
Tasmania is a chunky little island lying just below the Australian continent's nether tip. In Tasmania rugged Mr. Lyons worked up from State Treasurer (1914-16) to State Premier (1923-28), acquiring a reputation for honesty and a grasp of budget arithmetic. Three years ago he was merely a prominent island statesman, but in 1929 he graduated to a seat in the continent's Parliament at Canberra, sitting as a Laborite...
...momentarily doubled that the players fail to grasp the opportunities afforded by the script. The characterizations were on the whole indicative of able direction, diligent work, plus a manner of treatment which would not be mis-placed on the most cosmopolitan of stages. Rosemary McHugh and Harry Hutchinson convinced in difficult pats, while John F. Joyce, as Charles Lamb, breathed vital breath into his historical model...
...give it to us. They may be able to hand us the skeleton of dates and facts, but how can we ascertain from these the underlying causes of any one event and realize its possible effect on us as individuals or as a nation? How can we grasp the significance of this Chino-Japanese war from a mere report of the capture of a new unpronounceable town? How can we ever be expected to be of any use in promoting world peace if we don't know the history and the doings and the hopes of an organization like...