Word: grasping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...symbol of an American stand against foreigners and foreign doctrines. It has been impossible to discover the person who applied the tack to the over-inflated balloon of bourgeois self-righteousness, but it evidently has been applied: perhaps the sturdy citizen himself was not among the last to grasp the ridiculous exaggeration of his pose as the single-minded defeader of national ideals...
With the increasing subjection of faculty, as of students, to the time-clock regime, the tradition of scholarly leisure becomes more and more precious. As the academic profession falls within the grasp of efficient doers, the triple-distilled essence of Copey's individuality is the more highly prized. His is a distinct personality which stimulates in those whom he touches a wide gamut of emotional vibration, ranging from admiration...
...partisan, Statewide civic organization for constructive legislation and responsible and economic government," there is a well-deserved tribute to the services rendered at Albany by Senator Ellwood M. Rabenold '04. The writer of the article pays bomage to Mr. Rabenold's moral earnestness, his personal integrity, his profound grasp of the real problems of state, and his altogether exceptional effectiveness as a speaker. These qualities, one might think, would suffice to make anyone an altogether acceptable Solon. It is not often that any legislator is so fortunate as to possess them all. But no; Senator Rabenold has serious faults...
...West Point, Columbia piled into the Army most manfully. Cadets Wilson and Gilmore ripped through against her, but Koppisch, Pease and Empringham ripped right back. Had Pease not permitted the ball to slither from his grasp on his own 4-yard line, the score might not have been...
...ground small the meal of knowledge and then stuffed it into the puppet's head. More recently, educators have begun to recognize that the method of searching out, weighing, and using the facts which life presents to men is more important than any encyclopedia of knowledge. The ability to grasp and reason with experiential fact is supposed to be developed by the testing and teaching of a college course. Naturally the emphasis has been shifted from the body of facts to the method of using them, but Messrs. Mencken and Nathan are merely shadow boxing with an ethereal opponent...