Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eagerness with which such cure-alls are seized by the American public gives a very good indication of the general feeling of despondency and gloom caused by the depression. The average American is willing to grasp at a straw and to cling tenaciously until the last vestige of hope is withdrawn. It is a bad sign of the times. After Biocracy what? Cornell Daily...
...tutorial system, as I see it, lies in its failure to accomplish (in many instances at least) what has always been regarded as one of its primary aims; namely, to correlate the knowledge gained in courses in such a way as to enable the student to get a grasp of his subject as a whole and an understanding of the interrelations between its fundamental problems. This failure on the part of the tutorial system would not be so serious were it not that the system of general examinations is, generally speaking, quite efficient in testing the student's capacity...
President-elect Carias meanwhile had won the hand of his longtime sweetheart. who because his social position was inferior to hers refused to marry him until the Presidency was within his grasp. On Feb. 1 she will move their family into the Presidential Palace, the reception room of which is furnished with a score of wicker chairs and a four-poster...
...analogy with Jesus Christ, apart from considerations of blasphemy, seems to TIME to illustrate the befuddlement of those who grasp so eagerly and pitifully at a means of salvation which has not yet been announced...
...indicates rather that one who avoids effort in his tutorial work is not likely to be sufficiently interested in his subject to work independently (this particular student had already failed once before). I believe that the tutor's first duty is to aid the student to obtain a grasp of his subject as a whole, which, sordidly speaking, means passing his divisionals... There is no reason why a tutor cannot help a student in working out methods of study, suggesting relationships between different fields, and discussing such matters as "attitudes toward life" brought forward by the tutee's reading...