Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...right to presuppose that the Sabbath means more to them than one service and that they have tried to grasp the real spirit...
...enough to pay for freight, insurance ($450 for every $1,000,000), cooperage ($60), cartage ($50), brokers' fees and loss of interest. Last week, although the pound's value was not quite up to the "gold shipping point," it was close enough for the International Acceptance Bank to grasp the opportunity of being "first...
...assumed name, that the hero legend may survive and that he, Bachelet, may remain a minister of France. Henri accepts the situation France. Henri accepts the situation with the bitter resolve that having returned from the hell of war into a world of swine, he will himself fight and grasp and be a greater swine than all of them. It is a strong play, conviucingly acted, and it has the unpleasantness that is often the companion of truth...
...university's physical laboratory since 1907, for 30 years has been compaigning for a Canadian National Research Institute. To the eating officials last week he said that he did not wish to be personal, but that he could not keep from criticizing them for their failure to grasp the significance of scientific research in the development of industry. Lack of Canadian appreciation of scientific research in relation to industry, said he, was responsible for many brilliant men and much capital leaving Canada for the U. S., a country where the servant was worthy of his hire and where advantage...
...carry on independent study, mathematics is a subject in which the failure to understand one point may make further progress imposible. For this reason even the graduate students to whom the privileges of the Reading Period will be extended may have access to their tutors when unable to grasp a point which is essential to a continuance of their work...