Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hollywood octopus, through the good offices of the National Council of Teachers of English, has enfolded yet another phase of national life in its ubiquitous grasp. The Council has decided that by attending selected current movies, and by subsequently discussing them in the classroom, school-children can be taught to judge and appreciate the cinema. This opinion is new being tested experimentally on 10,000 children; later, if all goes well, 6,000,000 senior and junior high school students of the country will be allowed to exercise their critical faculties in this manner. The teachers hope for the development...
...Freshman team lifted a victory easily out of grasp of the 51st brigade team, which did not seem to click during the contest. Peter Jay and E. H. Gerry starred for the Freshmen, and the final chukker ended, the yearlings leading the army 8 1-2 to 4. HARVARD WESTWOOD McGuckin. No. 1 No. 1. Clark Davis, No. 2 No. 2. Phillips Nicholas, back back Palmer (Dillingham...
...course and the theoretical demands of the science requirement side by side. Clearly the aim of the requirement is not that each graduate have a technical knowledge of some one science, but that he be cognizant of science as one avenue of human endeavor, that he attain a theoretical grasp...
There come times in the lives of men when a dark, blood-curdling murder mystery is apropos. Those who at the witching hour huddle by the fireside in wide-eyed horror over the ghastly crimes solved by Philo Vance, those who feel terror grip their hearts in an astringent grasp at the shriek of an assassinated courtesan, they will enjoy the "Phantom of Crestwood." It abounds in all the paraphernalia of state grisliness, madmen, midnight murders, death masks, mobsters, and money musk...
...talk fifty-seven minutes three times a week, but to use lectures as sparingly as possible, the more time the student will have at his disposal, and the more it will be borne in on him that the initiative lies with him in acquiring, through his reading, a grasp on material, and a point of view which the instructor may modify in lectures...