Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...convenience. In History and Literature, on the other hand, the subject matter is shaped by an idea. The department was organized, on Professor Barrett Wendell's initiative, as a protest against the barren treatment of history which isolated political events from their context and therefore failed frequently to grasp their significance. Professor Wendell believed that political events could be studied with far more understanding if they were related to the whole culture of a period, to the prevailing climate of thought. The climate of thought could be approached most directly, he believed, through literature. In accordance with this conception...
This, then, is what the French have done for Adolf. Blinded by fear and the insane desire for revenge to the inevitable consequences of their actions, they have driven Germany to a more or less reluctant Fascism. They have failed to grasp the rather elementary truth that beating a man's head against the wall does not always result in peaceful submission. Having humiliated and impoverished Germany they are now "surprised" that a nationalistic, reactionary party has come to the fore...
...great apes. The vagabond sits in their midst, learning tricks that neither Burroughs nor his familiars of Brattle Street have ever dreamt of. And then, with an unrestrained and thoroughly natural chords of growls, the hairy beasts rush the demure observer, the Vagabond. He vanishes from their horrid grasp, to learn about them from a distance, when Professor Hooton, at ten in the Semitic Museum 1, delivers his lecture on "The Great Apes...
...citizens can hope to grasp concretely what the whole amazing U. S. rail system is. But the biggest chunk of it, that part which laces and crisscrosses the vast factory between Chicago and Middle Atlantic Coast-is identified by four names...
...ideas are more suitable to modern expression, some to classical. There can be no fixed rule. However, as students get on in life, they will see the difference between men who have had training in the classics and those who have not for such training results in a larger grasp, a fuller appreciation and a deeper interest in literature of any sort...