Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...then scudding about the world in small sailboats. A veteran of one transatlantic, two Fastnet, four Bermuda races, he is an accepted authority on small-boat sailing, the author of severa topnotch nautical books. Last week, as he stood on Brilliant's deck watching victory slip from his grasp, there was published in Manhattan another top-notch Loomis book, Ocean Racing,* the first thoroughgoing history of this hazardous sport of rich...
...there not something more than an opportunity which should be offered to them? All men have not the force of character to walk forward on their own initiative and grasp such opportunity. Examples by the score can be found in the College today of men who have been pleasantly drifting through their four years here. Many such men get into the College in the first place because of a long family connection with Harvard, and it is fitting that they should be here. Looked at from a hard boiled point of view, if they are drifters it is their...
...school: he may get on well enough, after a little floundering, in his own classroom, but he is not a professional. If he marries and has to go on teaching in order to make a living, he may never become more than a "good" teacher. His grasp of educational issues will be at best a matter of pick-up knowledge. Teaching as a career, even if it does not lead to school administration, demands more than casual acquaintance with the major problems of education
...Mussolini, faced with the imminent collapse of his regime because of the condition of Italian industry, the disintegration of the middle class and the increasing unrest among workers reduced to less than a subsistence level, was virtually compelled to make this gamble for Ethiopia. With that land in his grasp Mussolini would have a place for his unemployed, he would have raw materials which Italy sorely needs and could borrow money from the world's bankers on the conquered country's undeveloped resources...
Last week California voters solved Alf Landon's problem for him. Publisher Hearst could still puff the Landon boom, but the one instrument by which he could have exerted real pressure on the Kansas candidate had irretrievably slipped his grasp. Commented Governor Landon: "I am entirely satisfied with the California results...