Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...range of self-imposed duties, mostly of an escort character. If a blue jacket grew tipsy, Nuisance would grasp his sleeve, guide him understandingly to ward a haven. He regularly rode the interurban between the naval barracks at Simon's Town and the nearby port of Capetown. The railroad long ago gave up trying to collect his fare...
General Joseph Stilwell's shock columns were still at-not in-Myitkyina. With the prize almost within their grasp, they had stalled. One reason: the Japanese had quickly improvised a stout resistance. Another: torrential rains and monsoon winds had blunted the attack...
...would provide itself with enough such units (cost: about $15,000 apiece), all U.S. citizens could be X-rayed every year or so.* Said Drs. Hilleboe & Gould of the Public Health Service: "The final eradication of tuberculosis from the U.S. is well within our grasp...
Youngsters are the brains and guts of the nation's war-research program. In some of the most vital new technologies, such as electronics, they are the whole show; one eminent scientist observed that "no man older than 35 can have a really fundamental grasp of electronics." Some typical cases...
British youngsters were puzzled as to why the U.S. needs so many refrigerators, furnaces, canned goods. The size and climatic variety of the U.S. seems hard for them to grasp. Many questions concern education: the difference between a school certificate and a diploma or between a college and a university; the means of working one's way through college; the spread of education. One conclusion heard at a session last week: "Well, I suppose then that Americans are a bit more educated than...