Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...examinations were designed with the cooperation of the faculties of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Columbia and will test the student's general grasp of the principle subjects taught in a liberal arts college. These tests have recently been made open to Freshmen as well as Seniors. The student will receive a chart containing the results...
Michael Karpovich, assistant professor of History, when asked his opinion of Russia's decision, stated that "there is a good chance that Stalin decided on peace, although a complete victory was in his grasp, because of popular discontent with...
...exams, which are taken in two half-day sessions, are of the objective short-answer variety, designed to test the student's general grasp of the principal subjects taught in the liberal arts college, as well as the extent of his knowledge in certain of the fields of concentration...
...record of the '20s to the rich documentary fruitcake of Our Times.) Since Yesterday, however, is published after America in Midpassage by Charles and Mary Beard (TIME, May 22) and is in almost every way a slighter job. Yet Mr. Allen, although he has neither the historical grasp nor the mordant style of the Beards, has the advantage of doing his job in 346 pages to the Beards' 949. His story embraces neatly the scary and screwy decade from Sept. 3, 1929 to Sept...
...grown to international complication, is still all within the grasp of Juan Trippe's Argus-eyed mind, down to the last pontoon float on the Alaska run. He is still Pan Am's one-man filing cabinet. He had flung out new lines, directed deals for foreign landing rights, drawn performance specifications for new airplanes that were years ahead of current design, and kept manufacturers on a hectic hop. The line revolved in a controlled orbit around him, and him alone. The head of the Atlantic division knew all about his piece of the system, the head...