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Word: grasps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Teaching Fellows will direct a new program designed to increase the effectiveness of first-year law instruction by aiding beginning students to gain a better grasp of basic legal processes and by improving their methods of study...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 6 Law Fellows Picked, Begin New Program | 5/6/1949 | See Source »

...Latin Players have planned the talk to give those who intend to go to the play just to see lovely damsels in sheets a chance to grasp the real meat of the Plautus comedy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Language Aid Offered For 'Miles Gloriosus' | 5/3/1949 | See Source »

...victors of World War II put the leaders of the vanquished on trial. In over 50 million words of testimony, the Niirnberg mill ground out the story of six million Jews murdered, millions of laborers held in near-slavery. So huge were the figures that the world could scarcely grasp them. Though Hermann Göring postured in the dock and Rudolf Hess bellowed his insane laughter, interest in the courtroom scene flagged. But last week, crowds once more flocked to the big red-roofed Palace of Justice. The 13th and last of the Nurnberg trials was drawing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR CRIMES: Finis | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

Today's outfield will consist of Bob Thompson in right, Ben Akillian in center, and Jack Donelan in left. But Thompson's grasp on the regular right field role is still closely challenged by Buster Connolly, Slats Harris, and Gordon Morrison...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Frosh Nine Plays New Prep Today | 4/21/1949 | See Source »

Persuasive Fulton Sheen would like to introduce modern man to God by way of St. Thomas Aquinas' famed five proofs from reason of God's existence, but he feels that many a harassed, scatterbrained modern man may be "too confused to grasp them." So Author Sheen begins his book where the readers of self-improvement volumes seem to feel most at home: the realm of psychology. "If the modern soul," he writes, "wants to begin its quest for peace with its psychology instead of with our own metaphysics, we will begin with psychology ... If the modern man wants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Psychiatry & Faith | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

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