Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great obstacles lie in the path of teaching business in any secondary school in any country, no matter what its social condition. The complexities of the vocation, as Callisthenes chooses to call it, must of necessity invalidate it as a preparatory school course. No juvenile mind can grasp the problems presented...
...disappear, giving rise to questions demanding more comprehensive, integrated knowledge. A third feature of examinations is the forced review of the course as a whole, which they necessitate. Again and again men will find that this retrospect gives unity and meaning to the subject that had been impossible to grasp during the weeks of more segmented study. Daily Princetonian
...that the flurry over the inconsistencies of the Wickersham commission report has quelled it is not wholly impossible to grasp a moment for discussion of the prohibition question itself. Little enlightenment could be found in the decision of Wickersham and his ten committeemen with the exception of emphasis on the possibilities of outward disagreement of persons who attempt to solve the problem...
...exultant praise. In the orchestra are no violins, violas or clarinets but five flutes, many other wind instruments, drums, two pianos and a harp. Bostonians, though for the most part baffled by Stravinsky's new designs, sensed their importance, wanted another hearing. More immediate was Boston's grasp and appreciation of Stravinsky's scintillant Caprice for piano and orchestra, given its U. S. premiere the same afternoon...
Outstanding for the latter quality is W. H. Melish's essay on "Norman Forester and the New Humanism." Melish has a grasp of his subject, a background of extensive reading, and a maturity of literary style which place him in a class by himself among the contributors to the present number of the Advocate. He is a thorough-going, though far from a blind, disciple of Professor Babbitt. He has in fact done more than accept the Humanist creed; he has taken the trouble to find out what the Humanists are talking about and has equipped himself to speak with...