Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...accomplish his purpose Evreinov has emphasized a very subtle and at times tantalizing technique. While the play supposedly takes place in Russia actually it takes place somewhere on the border land between reality and unreality. It is a will-o'-the wisp sort of a play eluding our grasp just at the moment we attempt to put our finger on it. It is like the moon on a mackerel-sky with the white clouds rushing over it, now hiding it completely, now showing it to us through a transparent wraith-like veil, now and then revealing...
...center will be in action today. C. H. Bradford and Hoague at the guards and Turner at center are all fighting players, and should be at their best today with a regular berth in the Yale game almost within their grasp...
...zenith of his power the last Tsar Nicholas of Russia was notorious as a faineant who allowed others to direct even his policies. A sharp question would probably have revealed that he had no idea whether there was a Russian garrison in Persia or not. Had Nicholas possessed the grasp of detail of a Napoleon he could not but have known of a certain utterly obscure private in that garrison whom the world has come to know as Reza Khan, Dictator of Persia...
...strike deeply into the lives of two women with whom the wife has become closely associated, a saintly semimythical Princess and a courageous widow through whom the husband discovers how irrevocably he belongs to his wife. It is a sombre tale, told with great power and refinement and extraordinary grasp of the inward structure of the characters...
...Shapley further reports that during trance the Psychic freed the fingers of her left hand from his grasp and appeared to be using them to assist in the production of phenomena. Code reports an similar freeing of the Psychic's right hand during trance and a rather more extensive use of that hand in the production of phenomena...