Word: grasping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...experience, at least as varied and I suspect more full than that of the classes of 1926-30; and we are even beginning to get our collars washed, so that, unless plus fours and sweaters are the only road to sartorial respectability, we are decently dressed. Nevertheless we gladly grasp the glad hand, and appreciate the sincere, if somewhat gawky welcome. (Signed)--A Graduate Student...
...University eight picked this fall," declared Coach Brown former class crew mentor, who was recently appointed to succeed to the position of head coach, in speaking of the rowing situation yesterday, "and we intend to give every man who reports for crew this fall an opportunity to thoroughly grasp the fundamental principles of pulling an oar before there will be any definite classification of the boats. I want a chance to size up the men who report for practice, and in order to do this will pick even crews and will keep changing the lineups...
...small, confined, yet definite truths. With the advent of natural history, modern languages, and the multifarious, subjects necessary to equip the modern youth for his complicated world a new type of scholar was developed. The German tradition swept in with its directorate, its Teutonic philology, its attempt to grasp the fundamentals of the inductive system. Where one had been able to deliver ancient and musty truths which followed easily and logically from general premises, he was now confronted with the necessity of building from so many roots, verbal and cerebral, his particular system. No could he continue long...
...believes that if men are able to grasp fundamentals in thorough fashion, it is an easy matter then to shake them together into definite line-ups. In other words, he intends to develop his material first and name his line-ups when he knows what that material amounts to. This is not a radical departure in coaching, but a twist new enough to cause the focussing of a certain amount of attention on his efforts next spring...
...fouled compartments, scenes of the death struggles were revealed. Men had stuck to their posts. Inside the gash where the Rome had bitten, pinned between the bent steel plates and the engineroom bulkhead, was the body of a seaman. One arm was stretched out in an effort to grasp the lever which would have closed an emergency valve and perhaps have saved the lives of some of his fellows...