Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...famous Bruin backfield of Randall, Mishel, Lawrence, and Cornsweet galloped like Notre Dame's "Four Horsemen" of a few years ago. Four speedsters, shifty, hard-charging, with an uncanny knack of slipping out of the grasp of a tackler who apparently had them downed, theirs was the glory of the day. Slipping through gaps in the Crimson forward wall, they tore off big gains, and gave an exhibition of sustained and versatile power that stamps them as one of the greatest carrying combinations of the season...
...This selective practice tends to impair the student's sense of unity not only in his grasp of the author studied but in his own subsequent writing...
...speaker in the Cambridge Union has led many prominent men including members of Parliament to enlist his eloquent services on their Parliamentary campaign and his wide experience as a public speaker both in the Union at Cambridge and at public meetings at election times has given him that grasp of facts and fluency of expression which alone can command an audience's attention
Failed to Grasp...
...fail to grasp if you intend to be satirical, funny, or serious. However, I enjoy TIME beyond anything I have had the pleasure of reading as it keeps one in touch with so much without voluminous newspaper reading...