Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...literal English translation in which it was given. Then the curtain went up on a drop topped by the letters H. P., with a heavy, everyday horse on one side, an everyday electric battery on the other. Mexico's Artist Diego Rivera claims that the lowest intellect can grasp the meaning of his paintings. Certainly no one had to scuttle for his libretto last week to discover that H. P. stood for horsepower...
Jane Parker still seems to be more pleased than frightened. Her abductor does not disillusion her. Although he can only converse with monkeys and is, aside from his ability as a gymnast, convincingly subhuman, Tarzan shows a surprising grasp of the niceties of romantic love. He is only rough once, when he seizes Jane Parker's handkerchief, tears it in half and gives a disagreeable grunt...
...fateful deadlock which will compel the nomination of a compromise candidate. And though Mr. Baker will go in to the convention with scarcely a pledged vote in his behalf, a succession of ballots would bring his name so significantly forward that the nomination might easily be within his grasp...
...Kirstein writes well. He knows how to handle a dramatic situation simply. His prose can b e powerful and direct, and his characters, real. But somehow he seldom realizes his possibilities; they are usually just beyond his grasp. In the future with greater maturity he may perhaps...
...innovations are a desirable change in the meaning of a Ph.D degree in Sociology. It will cease to indicate mere pedantic knowledge of the facts in a restricted field and will show a more mature and profound grasp of fundamentals. The steps taken will facilitate this opportunity for the superior student by exempting him from mechanical examinations on fact. The average student, through not exempt from the preliminary examinations, will in the final oral quiz have to show the same intelligent grasp of first principles. Both the superior and the average student will profit by the removal from graduate work...