Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perhaps ... an outside comment may be in order . . . To us the salient point to grasp seems to be that no country, like the U.S., is entitled to expect others to provide a market for American exports unless equal, competitive entry of foreign processed goods is permitted. Your ultra-high tariff has, up to now, blocked this mutual equation . . . Up to the beginning of World War II, this gap was plugged principally by the shipments of gold to Fort Knox, in place of goods. Since the end of the war, the dollar shortage abroad was offset by temporary devices, such...
...minimum target of 50 divisions (25 ready to fight, 25 in reserve) and 4,000 aircraft by the end of 1952 2) a buildup program to 70 divisions by 1953, to 98 divisions and 10,000 aircraft by 1954. Promised such progress, Dwight D. Eisenhower commented: "Visible and within grasp we have the capability ... of such strength as the Communist world would never dare challenge...
Your Oct. 20 columns interpreting The Theology of Paul Tillich were informative in the best sense-lively, sane, and critical. This article proves again that the admittedly difficult assignment of presenting theology and philosophy in such a way that the general reader will grasp the issues can be accomplished when undertaken by skillful and sympathetic hands...
This much is fairly easy to grasp in Aiken's "autobiographical narrative'' Ushant; thereafter, the going gets harder. For much of Ushant is cryptic self-psychoanalysis, and is to be fully understood, perhaps, only by Aiken himself. Yet Ushant is no more difficult than the earlier chapters of James Joyce's Ulysses, and one of the fall's favorite games in U.S. highbrow circles will be trying to untangle...
...American can consider voting the Democratic ticket is beyond the grasp of many Canadians. Mr. Truman's continued attacks on Ike are, in my opinion, very unfair, considering the poor way in which he has run his present Government. Why doesn't Ike blast back with larger caliber ammo...