Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fields of colonial history, genealogy, and architecture, in early American portraiture and silver work. Edward Weeks, editor of the Atlantic Monthly, has noted that Belknap's thinking and style "combined the standards of the past with a very acute perception of the present. He had a sure and enviable grasp of history." Weeks concluded...
...spice groves, farmers in their rice fields. Altogether he drew 3,000,000 to his scheduled Congess Party meetings. Everywhere he kept up a bitter tirade against India's Communists. "Look at their flag!" he cried. "They have copied the Russian flag. Very extraordinary . . . My mind fails to grasp why that flag should be imported into India, and used as a party symbol . . . This is a type of mental slavery...
...universal basis for it. One of the few who attempt the statement is British Historian Christopher Dawson. "The source of the actual sociological unity which we call Europe," Dawson says flatly, "is Christian culture." His lifelong argument: without educating themselves in their universal Christian cultural foundations, Europeans will never grasp why their continent can be more than a congeries of geographical neighbors, serviced by the same wagonlit: system...
Under the proposed program, placement tests would decide which students are eligible for exemption from the elementary courses. But the present system of objective tests must be completely revised. Essay tests are the only means of evaluating a student's maturity and his grasp of difficult concepts. Such tests are expensive; they must be individually graded, while objective tests can simply be run through machines. It is probable, however, that only a few students, say not more than ten or fifteen percent of a class, would be interested in taking the tests. They would know that only a few exemptions...
Beginning careers in small business and manufacturing differ most from those in big business in that it is easy for the newcomer to grasp the total system of the small company without an inductive training period, Merry said. In this small surrounding, individual personalities become critical in the effectiveness of company projects...