Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Until recently Mr. Smith served Harvard as a member of the Corporation and a director of the Alumni Association, in both of which positions he worked capably and tirelessly. His amazing grasp of both international politics and finance was used with great success after the War when President Wilson appointed him financial adviser to the American Mission at the Paris Peace Conference; and still more strikingly when in 1924 he unraveled the financial tangle in Hungary as High Commissioner appointed by the League...
...down--trying to embrace me twenty feet below the surface. I didn't have anything to do with it, honest. I was groping about the bottom once when, interrupted by a tap on my shoulder. I turned about prepared to grasp a playful fellow-diver--and clasped a slimy, clammy arm--the sodden corpse of a dead woman...
...perhaps 400 unemployed who chorused "Down with the National Government!" until ejected by the 550 police. Meanwhile, in the House, Secretary for Agriculture Major Walter Elliot, pelted from the public gallery with green protest leaflets by the unemployed, exclaimed both in sorrow and in anger: "They do not grasp a single measure we are taking in their behalf...
Experience in our own dining halls has given us some grasp of the delicate hazards that are implicit in feeding hungry mouths. However, not until reading of the difficulties in the national capital, was the full import of the situation brought home...
...asked what he thought about the problem. After considering a moment the humorist replied that he didn't know about that, but he was sure that the Supreme Court followed the election returns. Mr. Dooley apparently not only had a keen insight into his times but the ability to grasp and aptly phrase that which would have meaning for successive generations. Yesterday's "gold decisions" bear ample witness...