Word: grasping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they realize that it was intended to aid undergraduates who wish information on college courses beyond what they can find in official University publications. The Bulletin, however, when it criticizes the estimate of courses as "the unsupported say so of an undergraduate editor", has failed to grasp the spirit in which the Guide was published. The CRIMSON did not have in mind the voluminous compendium of advice which the Bulletin recommends for the future. To quote from the introduction to the Guide in the CRIMSON of September 28: "Each opinion printed is the honest reaction of an individual of normal...
...Scholarly intelligence, which implies both a thorough grasp of facts and a mind alert to use them as the background for action...
...driving in the car of Dr. Stumpf, the Secretary of the Illinois Fundamentalist Association ... I did not see the beginning of the first holdup, but when I looked up there were two women, apparently drunk, who had been in the grasp of two men. The women had broken away, and, as I watched, the two men ran up an alley and disappeared . . . About two blocks farther I saw a man who had been pinioned by two other men. One of them was behind him and had hold of his wrist, and the other had a hand...
...what are same of the specific opportunities that then out to you to grasp or to lose during the coming four years? Let us for a moment examine them in the light of your future careers. Let us look at the facts...
...Little French Girl. Almost inevitably a popular novel will turn to dust in the grasp of the director-particularly a novel dealing with domestic psychologies of love, legal and otherwise, divorce and that sort of thing. The mother is in love with a soldier; he is engaged to someone else; the mother's daughter gets mixed in it all. Alice Joyce and Neil Hamilton assist with commendable performances...