Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...really think that TIME has something that no other news organ has. Brief, succinct write-ups. Clarified international situations that the average person finds hard to grasp from sometimes conflicting newspaper reports...
...nation had the World by the tail this week, but the rear end of the British lion was within measurable distance of Adolf Hitler's grasp as he spent three hours addressing the German Reichstag...
...virtue of its accuracy, its almost unique tone that manages to combine veneration for a great man with shrewd understanding of a human being. But in addition to these qualities, Herndon's Lincoln is a document as essentially American as Whitman's poems, not only in its grasp of the tough frontier world in which Lincoln grew, but in its belief in U. S. democracy, its recognition of democracy's weaknesses, its sturdy faith in the common people...
...large "D" with a small "-" after it, as Professor Bell said: "of course you'll have a chance to do better on your second draft. By the third draft you should have a pretty decent job done. This material is not easy for you undergraduates to grasp, you know. Ha! Ha!" He smiled as though he wished to be encouraging but couldn...
...That might be the best thing that could happen,'' sagely observed an eminent, striped-trousered, black-jacketed British civil servant. "Without some such incident it is difficult for public opinion to grasp the immense significance of the acts of Japan, and unless public opinion is strongly aroused what...