Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...might have been little animals-silver mosquitoes on a screen, countless miniature human beings, struggling to keep from falling and at the same moment stare at a great wonder, clutching at the bare face of a cliff to find support where there was not a root or weed to grasp. There was the momentary retention of position in the sphere of the light, then the same abrupt relaxation of their unaccountable grip and the rapid descent as in the lives of men he had read about, like Shelley, perhaps, or Chatterton...
...Wyck Brooks's The Flowering of New England. Subtitled Concord, Mass., 1840-60, it attempted to paint in music the surroundings and personalities of such famed New Englanders as Hawthorne, Emerson, Thoreau and the Alcotts. Most listeners found Composer Ives's complicated tone-portraits hard to grasp at one sitting. But respected New York Herald Tribune Pundit Lawrence Gilman unwrinkled his critical brow, crowed ecstatically: "Exceptionally great music . . . the greatest music composed by an American...
...taken, although the Generalissimo claimed that victory for him was inevitable. Even from his headquarters came the admission that no immediate capture of Barcelona could be expected. For the Generalissimo there have been many moments before in the 30-month war when victory seemed to be in his grasp, only to be snatched away by a sudden Loyalist stiffening. Eleven o'clock has struck many times before for the Loyalists, but one thing was certain last week: the well-trained but poorly equipped Loyalist Army would be forced to continue to retreat until it had better and more guns...
...Charles G. Hutter '38, only one, Jim Curwen '40, remains. Most of the Old Guard have graduated and Willie Kendall has abandoned college leaving two intercollegiate records behind him. Uien, the sports-writers, and the fans are new forced to get accustomed to "normal" times. Only within the grasp of scholastically ineligible Curwen is the possibility of smashing a record in the Hutter story-book fashion...
...Japan's peace terms. Premier Prince Konoye blandly announced that Japan sought no territory (that could be left to her puppets), no indemnity (that probably could not be collected from scorched China), no economic monopoly in China, was willing to respect the interests of third powers who "grasp the meaning of the New Asia...