Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That implacable educator, History, at last assigned a lesson that even the duller members of the class could grasp. Britain, its Government had announced, no longer possessed the resources to continue its comparatively puny military aid to Greece. India had all but left the Empire. Burma and Malaya were going. South Africa was tugging at the tether. In the citadel itself were hunger, cold and socialism...
...There is a ... vast disinclination on the part of the newspaper reader and the radio listener to think for himself. Obviously it is much easier to have opinions than to grasp a fact...
Thoroughly on top of his subject, Professor Brinton currently ranges from a General Education course in the Social Sciences to an intensive, in-close consideration of the history of France and Western Europe. Wonder at his organic grasp of these many levels has sent many a man sidling into local book-stores to ask hesitatingly for some novels by Henty...
...worries are flown on the wings of song," said Weisgal after a closer inspection of the cable. Workshop President Jerome T. Kilty '50 was equally confident: "With this wire in our grasp," he said, "we cannot be caught empty handed...
...time in the U.S.A. First he took a wife: 33-year-old Mary Louise Wellensiek of Pomona, Calif., whom he had met about a year ago at a presidential reception in Quito. Then he had a friendly chat with Harry Truman, came away impressed by the President's "grasp of modern and ancient Ecuadorian history." Finally last week, as his North American honeymoon ended, Trujillo announced that he had wangled two $4 million loans from the U.S. Export-Import Bank, to complete modernization of the water systems of Ecuador's capital and chief port...