Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...instructor, but is not recommended unless they are fairly sure they are going to concentrate in Philosophy and are willing to pluage into a new field without the acclimatization of course B. Although Quine lectures very swiftly the work is not hard once it is within the student's grasp...
...Worker had finally gone too far, sued for $250,000 in damages. Plaintiff Eastman: "I am suing . . . because I consider it my civic duty. . . . Every man who believes in ... democratic civilization as against tyranny and barbarism ought to> fight the American Communist Party with every honorable weapon in his grasp. . . ." Defendant Browder, appealing to the unwritten code, accused Plaintiff Eastman of carping at the Soviets; "When we call public attention to this, he turns to the courts to try to silence us. We have never asked the courts to silence Eastman's slander against...
...Totem and Taboo, which is an important contribution to psychoanalytic theory, but hard reading for laymen. He left out such Freudian classics as The Case of Miss Elisabeth R, and The Case of Miss Lucy R. These early works of Freud, simply and artfully written, revealing an extraordinary grasp of character and a lightning insight into human motives, are as readable as the stories of Maupassant, which they somewhat resemble in their worldly, ironic tone...
These outdoor concerts are unique in Harvard. More than any free concert on the Mall in New York, they are cosmopolitan. They bring together the whole community in an endeavor to grasp some of the fleeting beauty of the spring tide. There are no speculators hawking tickets on the fifty, for there are no seats. There is no wild cheering, no drunken shouting, only the bursting applause rings out under the trees to punctuate the intermission. What emotions rise in the hearts of the people are unexpressed, but taken away into the night to add to their sense of beauty...
...Grasp firmly the ends of the fingers of the guest, never allowing him to take yours, and. as you say 'how do you do, I'm so glad to see you,' draw him gently forward and past...