Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tender-handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains; Grasp it like a man of mettle And it soft as silk remains...
...storm. Lomea became one of the world's worst perils to shipping. Strong winds and tides pumping through the narrow Straits of Dover have not only built up the Goodwin's seaward side into an almost vertical wall, but driven ships into the sucking grasp of their sands. At low tide, the Goodwins are a desolate, brownish-grey archipelago; between 1824 and 1854, determined cricketers sloshed through four matches on the Goodwins. The record does...
...Muse cannot help being an intellectual," said the Tsar generously, "but I do not think that we should charge her with Trotskyism. I must say, though, that for a Muse of History, you seem to have a very slight grasp of the historical dialectic. It is difficult for me to understand how a contemporary of the dialectician, Heraclitus of Ephesus, can still think in the static concepts of 19th-Century liberalism. History, Madam, is not a suburban trolley line which stops to accommodate every housewife with bundles in her arms...
...novel in Cuba. William Faulkner lay fallow, having produced from the rich river bottom of his imagination enough circumstantial fantasies to keep students of the novel and the South in a daze for years. John Steinbeck's The Wayward Bus displayed his sensory gifts and grasp of underdog U.S. types, but these qualities failed to counterbalance a cheap plot. In The Pearl, published in book form at year's end, Steinbeck reworked an old Mexican folk tale with over-deliberate folksiness. Lion Feuchtwanger's novel of 18th Century France had all the solidity and splendor...
...have attempted to give some documentation for my feeling that the dining halls, sure of themselves in that their market cannot slip from their grasp, are not doing the best job they can. These are a few of the things that cause the undergraduate to be dissatisfied. There are many more. If the heads of the department sit down together with a will to improve their service rather than to justify it, they will be going far towards the solution of a problem undergraduates feel keenly about three times...