Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...explosions in Havana announced varying totals, reported six bombs exploded on one day, five the day after. Strangely, all this blasting killed nobody. But Angel Quintana, 14-year-old messenger boy, was seriously wounded when the "freshly made" bomb that he was delivering to a customer slipped from his grasp...
...Wilbur has given shelter to Petticoat Influence, a comedy by Neil Grant. With the rise of the curtain the play gives every evidence of being a sophisticated comedy of the English drawing-room genre, but before long it may be seen that the author's grasp has caught up with his reach and the play regrettably wanders far a field into the less stimulating realm of force. The perennial vivacity of Helen Hayes does much to propel a vehicle that in spots lacks lubrication, and Henry Stephenson gives the wheels of comedy many a timely flick of the finger...
...revolution. It started at Arequipa in southern Peru, where the President got his own revolutionary start. While loyal troops moved against the rebels, airplanes rained down on Arequipa copies of Lima newspapers announcing that Arequipa was "alone in her revolt," would soon again be in the grasp of Seven-fingered Col. Cerro...
Several reasons exist for instituting such a course. It would provide a foundation for men concentrating either in Germanic languages and literature or in History and Literature of Germany. Moreover, it would give men who have acquired some knowledge of the language an opportunity of getting a grasp of German literature as a whole. At present German 9 offers "a general view of German literature to the end of the Classical Period." That is the largest survey course. German 26a and 26b can be taken to supply the deficit in the nineteenth century and German 28 will bring the survey...
Walter Huston as Brady, the warden, interprets his part with a vigor and grasp that almost give a feeling of personal contact. The wronged young man played by Phillips Holmes is also a living figure. Boris Karloff as Galloway, the hardened criminal, presents what is probably the best acting in the whole production. He does not attempt to show merely a realistic figure, but instead he concentrates his efforts in creating the character he is presenting and in that he is highly successful...