Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Historian Jakob Burckhardt, famed author of Die Kultur der Renaissance in Italien. Before the Nazi Gleichschaltung, Biographer Burckhardt was League of Nations High Commissioner for Danzig. To the writing of 17th-Century history he brings an unusual firsthand knowledge of 20th-century practical politics. He also brings a keen grasp of the political mind, a powerful prose style. He uses them for a kind of historical writing in which, instead of reading history, the reader seems to be taking part in politics...
With each side holding one of the entrances to the Red Sea, the two adversaries were like men each of whom has a tight grasp on the other's windpipe. The question was largely which one could first choke the other and break his grip before he himself was strangled...
...divided, ineffective Hitlers. In a contest between Hitler and people who are wondering why they shouldn't be Hitlers, the finished product is bound to win. . . . Democracy is the best form of government. It is worth dying for. We can realize it in this country if we will grasp the principles on which it rests and recognize that unless we are devoted to them with our whole hearts, democracy cannot prevail at home or abroad...
...signs that a new determination had come to the U. S. Its form varied-there was determination to aid the Allies, determination to speed U. S. defense, determination to destroy whoever got in the way. There were casualties: >Dead was the politicos' alibi that "the country" could not grasp the issues of world conflict. Wrote steady-minded Columnist Ray Clapper from Kansas City...
...student who attended a commercial tutoring school, he announced, would be "liable to disciplinary action." Harold A. Wolff, proprietor of the biggest school, promptly announced that his school would give up tutoring, would restrict itself to "educational counseling" of students "who have done the work but still do not grasp the material." As Parker-Cramer kept mum, a Crimson photographer crashed one of its classrooms, took a picture of seven students cramming, dashed out with a tutor in hot pursuit. The Crimson printed the picture. Parker-Cramer promptly sued eleven of its members for trespass and libel...