Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bitter enemies, former Premier Sun Fo and former President Chiang Kai-shek strove like two men in a swiftly turning whirlpool to grasp what straws of Power they could...
...sure that the entire guilt rests on Japanese shoulders, as the speakers led us to believe. In the past, international misunderstandings have been far more complex. To enable us to grasp the complications of the present crisis, we should have heard at least one speaker presenting possible justifications for Japanese action...
...wrote Chancellor Bruning a belated letter flatly refusing to help prolong the President's term by Reichstag action, whereupon the Government set Feb. 28 as election day. On the subject of election candidates Herr Hitler was glumly silent. Silent', too, was Oberst Epp. With so much almost within his grasp he did not want to overstep...
...that every new opinion which turns up should be seen from a conservative view, in order to make that opinion more rational and correct," Dr. Harris continued. These people have broken with traditional forms of religion, but regard religious ideas with a fitting ethical seriousness. They have no clear grasp of the difference which exist between intelligent men of different religious beliefs, according to the lecturer...
...swamp grass and ooze. Next noonday another pilot who was imprudent enough to fly the short-cut spotted the stranded plane, hurried on to Miami whence an autogiro and two Goodyear blimps were sent to the rescue. Gently the blimp Puritan eased itself down until the men could grasp the railing around the bottom of the gondola, pull themselves aboard. No one could think of a way to recover the airplane, which was undamaged...