Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...become their executive officers. As they explained the matter, the trouble was that most young men who started to grow up with the business got caught in the trades of business, fell into ruts, got smothered with the 99 per cent. of the routine, and so never acquired a grasp of the whole business; and those who did learn enough of all sides of the business were apt to complete their knowledge when they were too old, or too inelastic and lacking in enterprise and resourcefulness, to be given important executive positions. 'Business,' which was giving the only 'full course...
...Harvard relay four, after two unsatisfactory victories over the B. A. A., and watching the same team on a third occasion snatch an hour-old record from its grasp, came to the mark Saturday afternoon in marvelous form. All questions of superiority were settled and a world's title regained, which has been already held for thirty-six hours and is likely to be held for many more. The hockey team, as well, after the loss of the Princeton series, made a successful ending of the major sport's first season. Not only was the final victory over Yale hardly...
...general relaxation in matters regarding education, able boys coming to college at 19 with an education they should have acquired at 16. President Lowell further pointed out the need for independent examiners, to test the measure of efficiency, who would look for evidence of diligent work and a thorough grasp of principles together with a proper knowledge of facts...
Morally unscrupulous as the calendar man must be he is nevertheless beyond the grasp of the law. And so all that can be done is to warn any men who receive his glowing offers to talk them over with friends and former dupes before signing the papers. The man who has carried on the business so successfully among Sophomores in past years was this year forced to find Freshmen to do his work. If now we can forewarn Freshmen, we shall perhaps run the calendar Janus out of his place in College...
There is good sense, as well as generous enthusiasm--a rare combination in musical critics--in Ernest Newman's "After Wagner--What? Most of the short article is occupied with a discussion of certain aspects of Wagner's greatness, such as his never-relaxing grasp, down to the smallest details, of his vast material...