Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bike Race at Madison Square Garden. They were one lap ahead of the field. Reggie McNamara and Pete Van Kempen were second by virtue of 1,174 points gained in daily sprints throughout the week. Maurice Brocco, tiny Franco-Italian rider, twice had victory in his grasp in the closing hour of the struggle only to have his giant partner from Holland, Peter Moeskops, ease up and lose the winning...
...that of King and Parliament or of President and Congress. For a while, in the hands of a public spirited man like Lord Northcliffe or Major Astor, the owner of the London Times, it may have no ill effects. But in an evil moment it may fall into the grasp of some one who will use it only for his personal benefit...
...trailing in the last period, Harvard evened the score by phenomenal marches down the field. And then after fighting Princeton to a stand-still two years ago in the Palmer Stadium and scoring a field goal in the last few minutes of play, victory was enatched from Harvard's grasp by Gillroy's spectacular run; last year with Captain Buell on the sidelipes for most of the game, another defeat was chalked up. No Harvard undergraduate during his years in College has seen the University team triumph over Princeton...
...outdone, Harvard may offer two plausible explanations. In accordance with Einstein's theory, the scientific German may hops, by reducing the mark sufficiently far in a straight line, to make it return through curvilinear space to its original position. Or if this should be beyond the grasp of those who do not comprehend Einstein, the German may be trying to keep the natural resources out of French hands by using their forests for pulp. At any rate when the printing of the mark has come to a period, one may wonder whether, "if seven maids with seven brooms should sweep...
...requirements for their A.B. degree in three and one half years and would, therefore, under the more usual business program, lose at least five months before beginning their professional career; second, those who, having graduated in June and gone into business have found their training inadequate for an effective grasp of business conditions...