Word: grasping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...instance, and the War of 1812. When we lift our hands for the pledge and solemnly repeat: "I pledge allegiance to the flag, and to the country for which it stands, one and indivisible, with liberty and justice for all," can any one-hundred per-cent citizen fail to grasp the deep meaning, the patriotic tenderness, the passion and spirit of his own native land? Do we outrun ourselves in thus eulogizing the United States of America? No. The United States of America is a great and glorious institution and is undoubtedly a success...
...rattling through his mind. The spoken word was often a direct denial of its companion thought. Suspicion, mastered grief, cynicism, inferiority?the raw matter of truth?were permitted and expressed. The author tried devotedly to give his hearers a third theatrical dimension. The strange convention, difficult at first to grasp, soon blended into the engrossing total...
Last week Mr. Bennett was welcomed to the Commons in his new capacity by Premier King (Liberal) who, as usual, turned many a felicitous phrase anent the new leader of His Majesty's Opposition: ". . . natural endowments . . . ripe scholarship . . . large and comprehensive grasp . . . high legal attainments . . . welcome [as] Leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition...
...political situation in China is not particularly difficult to understand, if one will have the patience to grasp a few facts concerning the history, the size, the huge population, the traditions, the culture, the philosophy, and the pschology of China, and will have the wisdom not to attempt to follow the details of day-to-day developments, as reported concerning persons and places...
...series of films designed to show the primary racial divisions of the human species and the criteria of race, by "close-ups" and animated, cartoons expressed simply enough so that the school children will be able to grasp the general idea. The purpose of this series is to give the school children a clear idea not only of the various racial types of man, but also of their distribution and possible migrations in the past. It is designed also to destroy the archaic racial classification on the basis of color still extant in most school geography books...