Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hanover, N. H., Oct. 19--The Dartmouth eleven came home today, disappointed that victory over the Yale Bulldog was snatched from its grasp and badly battered by the Eli onslaughts. The feeling predominates the squad, however, that the gruelling battle yesterday has given the team a real test which will be of inestimable value to it for Saturday's game with Harvard...
Professor Moore, Chairman of the Board of Preachers and Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, discussed religion in college. "Religion does not consist merely in going to chapel", he said, "but has infinitely greater scope than that. Try and grasp its substance while you are in college...
...most extraordinary cartoons ever published was one by Oliver Herford, in Life, representing Publisher Hearst as a terrible, glossy reptilian, crawling over the earth, nose to ground, its nine writhing arms stretched out to grasp as many State capitals...
...international policies, should such good fortune come to the American people as the election of Robert M. LaFollette to the Presidency, . have as much confidence in him as in any other candidate for the Presidency to grasp the situation in establishing and maintaining international good-will...
...ascertain whether infants were susceptible to fear, a snake was shown to 15 children, aged from 14 to 27 mos. Seven betrayed no fear 'at all; they tried to grasp the snake and play with it or else disregarded it. The eight others showed guarded reactions; only two were afraid. Both were older than any of those in the first group...