Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...principles, somehow or other, immediately exceeded the bounds of a technical treatise and aroused the whole world to inquire into the significance of evolution. When world-renowned authorities conclusively proved that Genesis was thoroughly inaccurate, a disastrous storm of emotion, such as is hard for the modern man to grasp, overran the minds of humanity...
This run is a steep 1500 feet of icy snow. Heavy jumping-type skis are worn, weighted for stability and with handles for the crouching skier to grasp. Bermath laughingly denied that he was scared. According to him it was a great thrill, but nothing more...
...position in the modern political scene. This means that they should be ready to vote intelligently and furthermore, able to argue and discuss politics intelligently. But the growing complexity of political problems has made such a preparation more and more difficult. It is no longer possible to obtain a grasp of modern conditions by means of the conventional training in the liberal arts. Some specific knowledge of the social sciences is becoming more important than ever...
...Those on his team look up to "Dick" so much that when they lose, they feel that they have let him down; this fact makes the loss to Army even harder to bear. For Harlow's men to see a wholly-earned victory wrenched from their grasp Saturday was the acme of injustice...
...demand--and it is well to remember that he once promised not to impair Austria's independence--Hitler can promise not to demand more land in central Europe because the territorial basis of the Drang Nach Osten will already have been laid. With Sudeten industry and fortifications in his grasp, and with France's cordon sanitaire virtually dissolved, Hitler can pursue the peaceful phase of his drive to the East--East economic pentration into southeastern Europe. Czechoslavakia, Rumania, and Hungary will become defenseless puppet states, and thus Hilter will carry out the plan outlined in Mein Kampf without taking...