Word: grasping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...practical" men have traditionally, at least, scorned the aid of the theorists, for being practical, they had to be shown. And if the theorists did not effect any kind of union with commerce, it was either because they could not demonstrate their theories convincingly or because they failed to grasp the importance, and shrank from wordly contact into the congenial company of their fellows. The slogan of modern engineering--"If it's not practical, it's not good theory" is comparatively recent, and no one has put it more into practice than Dr. Steinmetz...
Coming from behind in the second half, the Worcester soccer team tied the Freshman eleven with a 1 to 1 score on Soldiers Field Saturday afternoon. A long hard kick by McGill in the closing minutes of the game cluded Woodard's outstretched arms and snatched victory from the grasp of the Crimson team...
Spalding sent a pass to Jenkins that gained seven yards with fourth down, three to go, on the 18-yard line. Hammond passed high to Hill, who was waiting over the Dartmouth goal line, but Haws knocked it out of his grasp. Dartmouth started the ball back from the 20-yard line in a series of line plunges...
...Michigan recently graduated an Iowa judge at the age of 62. Columbia University graduated a grandmother aged 71 and Kansas University graduated a man of 81 at its last commencement. . . . The three R's are comparatively easy subjects for the adult mind and none are too old to grasp them. . . . " If there should be one Booker T. Washington, Edison or Lincoln among them, although it cost $20,000,000 to bring him out, it would be well worth the price...
...early advocates of this juggling with the clock. Willett died without seeing the motion he had long advocated in the House of Commons become law, and only this present year the French Senate changed its opinion on the matter several times. Like all new ideas it was difficult to grasp. Farmers could not see how cows could be milked or wheat grown if the clock were altered and mothers could not understand how it would be possible to get their babies to sleep. This antagonism to new ideas is not new. The conception of a non-stationary engine was impossibly...