Word: grasping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recently become less acute, less perceptible, and in many cases has been obliterated. Great issues have become more identified with personal than with political partisanship, as the Treaty fight has shown. In both the old parties the more radical elements are threatening to wrest the sceptre from the grasp of the "Old Guard." With elements in both parties striving to outdo each other in radicalism, there will be an opportunity for constructive statesmanship untainted with reaction to acquire the political balance of power, without the disruption which attends the birth of a third party. This is the opportunity for patriotic...
Since farming is an outdoor rather than an indoor industry, it is subject to times and seasons. The farmer's work must be done when outdoor conditions are right and not when the farmer would prefer to work. This is a point which many indoor people fail to grasp. They are so independent of the sun and so much the slaves of the clock that they can not even rise an hour earlier in the morning without setting their clocks ahead...
...average undergraduate wanders about, eagerly seizing such bits of the news as have meaning for him, rejecting the rest. He has a vague feeling that when we "get back to normal times" he may be able to find out what it all means. The reason that he cannot grasp it now is, primarily, that he does not know where to find adequate accounts of current affairs, nor how to correlate his knowledge of them. In the second place he has not enough time. He usually reads the morning paper more or less carefully and possibly sees one of the weekly...
...more important than that is the fact that he is the only man in public life who had shown a real grasp of the labor situation. He alone has had the courage to handle it is a constructive...
...general way that he knows little particularly, especially politically. In consequence, he throws his energy here and there in a vain effort to land on the "side of right." He fears to attach himself to any cause which may be criticised adversely, and in consequence he often fails to grasp his opportunity for being a real factor in his country's political life. This group is not limited to the men in the universities; it reaches much farther and includes unfortunately the majority of the young men of the business and professional world. Leonard Wood believes in getting into...