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Word: grasps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Winston Churchill's achievement was that he, alone among the leading Allied statesmen, had given the Allied peoples something that they could grasp, examine, discuss in tangible terms. Out of this discussion, by week's end, had come a good deal of light on the world that people want-and on the world that they are likely to have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: The World and Churchill | 4/5/1943 | See Source »

...lost more money conducting orchestras than any ten of his contemporaries have made. The money (a fortune estimated at $140,000,000) was amassed by the amateur Lancashire horse doctor, Joseph Beecham, who invented Beecham's Pills. Joseph Beecham was one of the first British businessmen to grasp the power of modern advertising. He even circulated a hymn book edited with an eye to furthering his product. Most famous edited hymn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Enthusiastic Amateur | 4/5/1943 | See Source »

...ground begins to thaw, and the ico on the Charles breaks up, House teams enter the spring season, the home stretch in their race for the Straus Trophy designating supremacy in House athletics. Right now, Leverett seems to have a tight grasp on the cup, holding a lead of about 115 points over Winthrop, with Adams holding third place. By the end of the winter season, the lead will probably have increased to about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LEVERETT HOUSE LEADER AS SPRING SPORTS NEAR | 3/24/1943 | See Source »

Under the Lorry. On the road retreating from Magwe, Belden listened to General Bruce Scott speaking pensively between sips of soup: "What is war? Who is the enemy? What is he? We can only grasp at the shape of the antagonist before us, and then when you think you've solved the mystery of his personality, he vanishes into thin air like a jinni. . . . What makes me cross is that by evening he knows exactly where we are, but we don't know where he is 'or what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Long Hike | 3/22/1943 | See Source »

John Winthrop House has lost its traditional iron grasp on the House hockey league with its defeat by the speedy sextet from Dudley Hall. The season reached the halfway mark Monday night, with the Lowell Bellboys still leading and a Puritan-Rambler tie for second...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOUSE HOCKEY PACED BY LOWELL RINK SEXTET | 2/3/1943 | See Source »

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