Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard's fraternity champions had victory within their grasp on two occasions; once when Smith sprinted 80 yards and was finally caught on his five yard line, and later when Jacobson, on the same play, made a spectacular run of 80 yards, but was also caught on the five yard line...
...Europe. It was written by Vicki Baum, staged, directed and produced (with Harry Moses) in Manhattan by Herman Shumlin. It is difficult to imagine a better translation than that which William A. Drake has made. Originally titled Menschen Inn Hotel (People in a Hotel), the play manages to grasp a large chunk of existence, thrust it into a Berlin hostelry, expose it completely. It would be easy to demonstrate how Lust, Greed, Despair, Fear, Bravery are pursued throughout 36 hours in the life of a hotel and become Love, Disgrace, Hope, Birth, Death. But that would be doing precisely what...
...ability that is coupled with a high sense of justice and sincerity, and a capacity to grasp and analyze public questions, are most essential to success. It is regrettable to find so many men in public life who may be honest but whose conception of politics is that it is a game of expediency and that mental capacity is inconsequental...
...British share: "British statesmen are usually blind to their own tendencies, but vividly aware of their own disinclinations. While not knowing what they are doing or what they want to do, they realize quite clearly what they do not want to do, and they are apt to grasp at this negative, and to proclaim it, in place of the very tiring calculations which any positive policy would entail...
...Chrysler edifice at 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue, bought from Sen. Reynolds of Long Beach, L. I., has been taken away from Walter Chrysler. . . . Money troubles." They cited the fact that no newspaper had since printed any suggestion that Mr. Chrysler's tower was slipping from his grasp. They promised a statement "qualifying the fact of Mr. Chrysler's owner-ship." But weeks slipped past and no statement came out, Mr. Chrysler apparently being too preoccupied with that which makes him rich to worry about his monument...