Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tacit admission that they will be expected to know only two-thirds as much as they once had to Lacking the money to re-institute the ante-bellum miracle of full tutorial, the English Department is at least making sure that its huge enrollment gets an organic grasp of the chopped-up area. For this reason the members of the Department can feel that they made the best of a tough situation; but it must also be unpleasant to watch the standards of one of the University's most famous fields decline before their eyes...
Little can be said against the value of technical tools in economic analysis. Nor can the social scientist neglect the importance of a sound grasp of the study's principles and problems. But the stubborn fact persists that government and history concentrators criticize Economics A as more a menace than a means toward providing an admittedly desirable background. The graph-conscious approach, while clear to the average science major, sears a little above the head of the future historian or politician...
...minor incident highlighted a serious problem last week. Liberian airfield workers just could not grasp the U.S. logic in shutting down a nice strategic base like Roberts Field, on the west bulge of Africa. They missed their regular pay. The Army had buttoned up the big Air Transport base at the end of March and left a handful of G.I. guards to hold off the exuberant jungle and its prowlers from the runways and buildings...
...guides-are seen, smelt and heard with a consistency and solidity of understanding that makes most other writing about them seem perfunctory or fake. All the romantic qualities that a boy could find in these figures -their lonely hardihood, keenness and courage-are combined with a realist's grasp of them as rough and wayward fugitives from society. The idiom of their thought and speech has never been so richly used in fiction...
...modern schools at his impoverished birthplace. In Boston the Greek Orthodox Cathedral benefits from his generosity. Over a battered desk hangs perhaps his proudest possession, an autographed portrait of Eleutherios Venizelos, until his death in 1935 the towering Greek democrat of this country. Felix does not boast a grasp of political nuances but he holds a simple hatred for the Communists in Greece...