Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Times summed up: "[The Swede's] $37.50 a week . . . even enables him to keep his 16-year-old son in college. The French engineer earns good pay, but black markets keep decent rations, shoes and clothing out of his grasp.. . . The man in the cab in India, on $39 a month, never sees fruit for his family, rarely gets meat. The veteran engineer in London still struggles for comfort. Good food is hard to get, clothing too high-priced for him.. . . Only in Stockholm and New York does the engineer know true comfort...
These years on the scene, combined with his grasp of China's language and history, have given him a view different from that of journalists who hit the country and fly off in a few days. A quick dose of hearty, bluff, American-style democracy, or solid support of the right-wing Kuomintang power-group is not enough, he maintains. "The fact that the imperial tradition had the inertia of three thousand years behind it and was formally abandoned only in 1911 should give us pause. How can we reasonably expect that even a people so politically gifted...
...after Nicholas Murray Butler got the board started, the first 973 test-takers were private-school graduates who had taken pretty much the same studies. It was easy for the board to hit on a half-dozen broad essay questions, fairly testing their factual preparation, their grasp of ideas, their literary style. The 46,087 boys & girls who took the College Boards last year were just too many and various to grade in the old way; more than half of them were public-school students-products of a dozen different curriculums. Four years ago, the board tossed out the essay...
Hutchins had told the assembly of scholars, "If we are not all killed in the next few years (of the atomic age) we will all be bored to death. The Universities will be obsolete if they do not grasp the opportunities to make leisure time worthwhile...
...Koreans' native ability to grasp a homely fact is indicated in a line from one of their love songs...