Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...disclosing no secret," said he, "in asserting that research is proceeding successfully on airplane engines that develop as much as 8,000 horsepower! Imagine a plane like the B19* equipped with four such engines . . . plus other vital improvements already available and you grasp the emerging revolutionary possibility of ranges circling the entire globe (25,000 miles) with ample margins for tactical operations...
Meanwhile the aviator, who had suffered a fractured skull and several broken ribs, had managed to grasp a buoy after being thrown clear of his sinking plane...
Just as the pilot was about to loose his grasp on the buoy, Warner pulled him into his small boat and rowed him safely to shore...
Last week foreign ministers of 21 republics representing 300,000,000 Americans opened consultative sessions, and a triumph-one that could at last vindicate Bolivar's Pan Americanism-was within their grasp...
...figures were too tremendous to grasp, but statisticians fumbled feebly with them. Mr. Roosevelt was asking the U.S. to spend in one twelvemonth a sum: 1) $21,000,000,000 greater than the total value of all securities on the New York Stock Exchange; 2) equal to the entire dollar value of all the products turned out in 1939 by the 184,000 factories in the U.S.; 3) equivalent to $3,295 per hour since the start of the Christian...