Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tragic to see a vast movement like contemporary architecture gaining in strength and beauty, and becoming an absolute part of our lives, while the entire commercial furniture industry, which should have been a part of this development, has completely failed to grasp the significance of it. Standardization of design has already given you the most beautiful bathrooms and kitchens the world has ever seen. It has given you the best automobiles, the best planes and . . . the best-dressed women in the world. And now standardization is going to do the same thing for your entire house, and make your life...
...mind and lack of coordination with the Army (though Frank Knox himself had warned that an attack might come there), Knox has helped the President in shuffling his admirals but he has not made over his Navy Department in any way that would demonstrate that it has an aggressive grasp of the Haushofer type of war that the U.S. now has to fight. As one of his colleagues in Washington puts it, "Frank Knox is a man of action and his heart is in the right place but I don't think his head helps his heart very much...
...galoshes. Many are European-born, many have sons in the fighting forces. The plant is on a 24-hour basis, supplying meat to the United Nations' armies. When the war news is bad, they sometimes slash at the pigs as if they had Hitler himself in their grasp. Then production soars...
...Caucasian oil fields, which are almost within Hitler's grasp, would make up the Nazi oil deficit and enable the Germans to keep their war machine in high gear. If Hitler should be able to capture these fields, however, he would probably have to spend about ten mouths in repairing the refineries and oil wells which would be destroyed in accordance with Russian "scorched earth" policy...
...even greater victory. He could look with satisfaction on what his Panzers, shock troops, snub-nosed caterpillar guns and rank-on-rank of efficient infantrymen had achieved. He could look with hawk-eyed anticipation at the mighty Volga, throbbing artery that pumps the heart of Russia, almost within his grasp. With brains and reasonable luck he might sever that artery by autumn, cut the Red army and Russia from its Caucasian oilfields and enormously complicate Russian supply problems from outside...