Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dominant note of the book is contained in the curious and eye-catching title. It is the story of the awakening of the peasant from his long sleep of ignorance and superstition and the clumsiness with which they have tried to grasp hold of their new and streamlined life. Mr. Duranty often has an amused smile on his lips when he tells of the strange effects which the attempts to adapt themselves to their boss comrades' ideas of civilization have on these simple people, but he is gentle with them throughout and never sharply satirical...
Reading eyes do not move continuously from left to right. They hop. The number of words they grasp in one hop is called the span of recognition. This span for the average efficient college reader is 1.2 words; a very few persons can grasp as many as five or six words at once. At the end of the hop there is a pause, while the words register on the brain; 94% of reading time is spent in these "fixations." Sometimes the eye goes back over words it has already scanned. These are regressions. To read rapidly it is necessary...
...days that they have been unable to form a Cabinet which can secure a majority in Parliament, last week amply showed his own feelings by asking van Zeeland to remain as Premier at least until the King returns from London. By then Belgian public opinion may have a clearer grasp of the issues-already this week prominent Socialists were agitating for van Zeeland to be formally reinstated as Premier-and the King may also call a general election. Although Rexist Degrelle is no doubt annoyed at his fascist failure to use the King, the handsome Rexist's loose mind...
...beginning of "The Good Society," where he attacks the totalitarian states as a throwback to the coercion of the Ancion Regime. Mr. Lippman compares the limited abilities of man with the complexities of modern society and asks how the planners can possibly be expected to have a sufficient grasp of the situation to plan wisely. . "The whole social process is beyond any man's comprehension . . . Men cannot direct the social process. They can only intervene here and there...
Arriving in Atlanta with undefeated team and the Rose Bowl practically in his grasp he met a much inferior but inspired team which defeated Duke 6-to-0. Again in 1935, he arrived in Atlanta with a so-called Rose Bowl team and again he went home defeated by the same score, 6-to-0. Both Georgia Tech scores were made on exactly the same play from almost the exact spot and at the same goal. In fact, the boys of the 1935 team telegraphed the captain of the 1933 team to this effect: "Pappy Jack Phillips, same score, same...