Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because the Army engineers had no expert staff to operate the A. E. F. railroads, General Pershing summoned William Wallace Atterbury, then general manager (now president) of Pennsylvania R. R., made him Chief of Transportation. He had "personality, force, grasp of the difficulties and willingness" which made him one of General Pershing's favorite subordinates. Between them there were endless conferences. Brigadier General Atterbury did a crack job with transportation and, in the eyes of his chief, contributed largely to the success of the A. E. F.'s later military operations...
...about Russia that one culls from the Stygian gloom of Chekov or Tolstoi. Russian peasants for the Vagabond are a half mad lot. He sees them as a race of men who in one hand hold a knife over the head of a fair daughter, and in the other grasp a bottle of Vodka with which to wash away memory of the ugly deed. And the nobility, they carry on scandalously. Understand that this is only an impression gained of Russia which the Vagabond has created from his readings. He is a highly imaginative fellow with a passion...
...great measure a matter of practice and requires both time and concentration, two requisites which the college student is hard put to it to muster. When the undergraduate comes to college he has slight maturity and little knowledge of the direction of his tastes and talents. To demand professional grasp at this itme necessitates the immediate decision as to his field and forces him to penetrate into it to the exclusion of almost everything else...
...will enable the student to enter the professional ranks, but it makes no pretence to a high degree of proficiency in any limited subject. With specialization practically inevitable later in life, the highest service which the college can render is in the development of resources and an ability to grasp the real meaning of problems as they present themselves. In this sense the college's job is not professional training in any one line of study, but the development of a technique of thought...
...contributing to such periodicals as the "New Statesman," "Contemporary Review," and the "Asiatic Quarterly." In India he achieved eminence as Associate Editor and Editor-in-chief of the "Bombay Chronicle," and the "Independent" of Allahabad. In these capacities he gained an influential position as a publicist due to his grasp of public affairs and outstanding oratorical abilities. In 1920 he was one of the three delegates elected by the people of India to present the Indian case at the Near Eastern Peace Settlement. Upon the conclusion of his mission he remained in Europe to follow the developments of the international...