Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then he was off to the American Legion County Fair- his 12th in twelve years. He rode to it on the folded top of a roadster, waving his new hat. At the fair his chair was on a raised platform. He leaned over its railing to grasp hands...
...Protest issue" June 13, the Spectator attacked the Emergency Council's and the King's Crown Advisory Committee's, infringement of its independence: "An intolerable situation has arisen. A willful attempt by Emergency Council is being made to grasp the reins of Spectator editorial policy so tightly that Spectator will never again be the master of its own fate.... The entire Spectator staff, Managing Board, and Associate News Board, bitterly protest this action. No one, neither the Council nor a committee of King's Crown Advisory Board has a right to approve of Spectator's editorial policy in advance...
Basic tool of Renshaw's method is a gadget for flashing images briefly on a screen. Students are given no time to ponder details; they have to grasp the whole picture fast. Renshaw starts them off with a four-digit number, showing it for 1/50th of a second. As the students learn, the numbers get longer. A student recently reproduced a twelve-digit number (568790154123) after looking at it for less than a second...
...Literary Magazine and an authority on jazz (American Jazz Music), is mainly interested in prodding his people into disjointed remarks on music, clothes, Marx, alcohol, horses and the female figure. His deliberately meandering story is often witty, and stylishly tailored to a cast of characters who are unable to grasp anything more complicated than a highball...
Thus, with a reminder that Hitler was one of the first modern men to grasp the significance of the decay of Christian faith, the Yale University Christian Association last week asked alumni to give their moral and financial support to a postwar religious program just recommended by a faculty committee of eleven...