Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only three newcomers to the notorious politics of Cambridge's Poon Ring survived elections yesterday, as cigarsmoking, derby-hatted Clemens B. Woop VI tightened his grasp over the lives of the Bow Street slum sections. In the traditional first-thirteenth in November recount, Woop carried all two electoral districts, dropping only 23 to his pawky opponent...
...Massachusetts General Hospital clinic last night, the Lecturer in Social Relations explained that neither psychiatrists nor religions leaders are guilty, as groups, of misunderstanding each other. However, individuals in each calling condemn the other through failure to grasp the opposing view...
Spender observed that he found in America "an inability to grasp the basic problems confronting us." He cited the lack of any unified liberal reaction to the current Hollywood hearings of the Un-American Activities Committee, adding that he noticed this "complete failure of understanding" in university professors he met in this country...
...purpose of equipping the pupils with those elements of general knowledge which are closely related to the military preparation of future warriors. ... In the course in geography attention should be given to the development of the ability to define the cardinal points ... to read a map, to grasp the relations of the various elements of relief. This is an essential part of military study. Mathematics should provide training in the use of the scale, the divider, the caliper. . . . Knowledge of mathematics is extremely important for the mastery of military technique. Various forms of out-of-class work designed to prepare...
Power by Easter. Meanwhile De Gaulle had reached the climax of a 16-month political campaign. Cried he: "The future belongs to those who want to grasp it... ." At a by-election in the Canton of Isigny. Department of Calvados, the R.P.F. candidate polled 2,438 votes against a combined Socialist-Communist vote of only 909. Cabled TIME Correspondent André Laguerre...