Word: grasping
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...entirely in poor throws to first, while Columbia was good in that respect, but failed to show up as well in quickness of judgment at critical points. The game as a whole was the best that the nine has played this year. The men all showed a coolness and grasp of the situation that was extremely encouraging to the friends of Harvard that were present. The score...
...lives under an absolute monarchy could never write understandingly about the kingdom of God, because his mind would not be broad enough to grasp the subject. He would be continually thinking of the different social relations, between man and man on earth, which do not exist in heaven. A student who does not use his knowledge to enlighten those of his follow-creatures who have not enjoyed his advantages, makes a misuse of the powers which God has given him. In conclusion, Faure's "Crucifix" was sung by a chorus of tenors and basses...
...should rightly adjust the emotional and intellectual elements of his life, giving to neither exclusive-influence in his thought or action, but while seeing truth with a clear mind, he should grasp at its feeling with a heart for many and the experimental knowledge of what friendship...
...expressed in these words of the Old Epistles of the Hebrews: "Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, and to-day, and forever." The necessity of which I speak is universal. There is no life which fulfils itself entirely and worthily, except as it is inclosed within the grasp of a life larger than its own. Such enclosure may be represented, as an obedience, to which the life is bound, a service which it is compelled to render, or more truly as the existence within an element which is its natural supply and good. Just think how numerous the institutions are. Each...
...much praise for the care and work displayed in the first number of the Quarterly Journal of Economics. The magazine appears in an attractive form, the type and the size of the pages making the labor of reading as small as possible. All the articles are written with a grasp which betokens a complete understanding of the questions involved, while also they discuss problems that are more interesting to the unprofessional reader than are most of those in the journals of a similar class. For in these latter technical points and little matters that are only of interest...