Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gandhi's critie rejoices at Bernard Shaw's remark that the success of the Bolsheviks is due to their grasp of communism and capitalism. Perhaps the communists know it all. I would advise my opponent, however, not to take Mr. Shaw too seriously, for the same gentleman is reported to have said recently that not unless all living communists are killed can communism become a reality. Auup S. Dhillon
...highlands from the lowlands of the terrain which has been traversed; he should perceive intuitively a brief coherent outline of the entire work. Yet Mathematics A, to cover the prescribed ground, must proceed at a pace which renders all but the most brilliant men incapable of obtaining a thorough grasp of the topics as they rush by, and the diverse nature of the subjects which are treated does not help to clarify the final picture. If the course intended merely to present a series of glimpses of the extraordinary panorama of mathematical thought obtained from a somewhat removed point...
...most difficult of modern sciences, but it is due rather to the fact that the work must be tempered to the capacities of the many Freshmen who take the course. Any subject purposely made so simple as to be placed within the grasp of Freshmen is not fit work for the necessarily more mature minds of upperclassmen. In addition, the Freshmen environment cannot help but produce a deadening effect upon the efforts of the Junior or Senior...
...oasis" reveals a rather unfortunate point of view. The student abroad has occupied, in the main, a liberal and an enviable position; his temporary isolation gives him a real stimulus in the fine are of transcending barriers of nationality. Not only language, but inter-racial insight and a grasp of a foreign culture have been the fruits of a conscientious attempt on the part of the student at self dependence. There have been, of course, men whose thirst for Keokuk or Hartford was so great as to handicap them even in their work, yet for the most part the disease...
...build great industrial corporations that introduce amazing novelties into life. Their executives think first, last, and nearly all the time of their concerns as isolated. They have no fine understanding of their own companies, too little grasp of their industries as a whole, almost none of the relation between their particular interests and our general social and economic structure, and far too little grip on the social consequences of their activities. We create great banks. Their leaders too often know little beyond finance. When thousands of banks fail, mainly through the intrusion of new social and economic forces, they...