Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Devine tightened his grasp on the regular left end position over Gene Lovett by holding forth at that station all afternoon. And Club Peabody now rates a slight edge on Don Lowry in their nip-and-tuck scrap for the starting left guard assignment. Dick Pfister is his running mate at right guard...
Speaking for the Führer, he said that the Chamberlain reply was "insolent" and "stupid." It was "totally devoid of vision" or "comprehension of the world situation." The Prime Minister's failure to grasp the "outstretched hand" of the Führer meant that the British wanted to annihilate the German nation. "Let's see who will be annihilated," snapped Press Chief Dietrich...
...tests are given periodically to check on the progress of the class. The number of words read per minute is computed and graphed for each student as well as the daily average for the class. Selections of increasing difficulty of thought are offered the student to teach him to grasp the main idea and central thought of any passage...
...GENESIS and ORIOL, ROSS show a new and invigorating vision completely free from academic stodginess. In many respects Epstein occupies the same relative position in his medium of expression, that of stone, as James Joyce does in the world of the novel, and his work is as difficult to grasp as Joyce's. To the religious person, the ADAM looms large as a distasteful desecration of the scriptures; some people gaze in silent admiration; others use the statue as the butt of obscene vilification...
...father's good English blood, made him an unwelcome guest in the period between wars. Richard Aldington's bright, reckless style has improved since Death of a Hero, his epigrams are neater (though subject to an appalling tendency to show off his Greek), but his grasp of real experience is weaker...