Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...matter of fact that we have learned to count. Anybody can make figures, but since archaeologists, historians, scientists, physicists have poured numerals and numerals across us, this generation does not theoretically think in large numbers. The power of the mind to grasp ever larger quantities of units is a thing which the young have and we in middle age still do not have and really cannot have to the same degree. And one thing that follows from that is that they realize this mutipliciy of the souls that have lived and the presumable billions and billions yet to live...
...West Point. Men just don't apply there like any other college. They are appointed, which supposedly means they have to be the cream of American youth. It is about time that every American should realize that the very materialism we have been fostering contains in its grasp the seeds for our own degeneration. Materialism, not Communism, is our deadly enemy...
...husband died in 1939 at the age of 72, but she is still at it, an amazing old lady of 85, with piercing grey eyes under black brows, and none of her staggering faculties impaired. Wolcott Gibbs, of The New Yorker, has written of Thurber's "sure grasp of confusion." Nobody who ever heard Jim's mother tell a long, detailed, uproarious misadventure story would wonder where his sureness of grasp came from. There are oldtimers in Columbus who insist that Jim is but his mother's pale copy...
...documentation to make its charges stick. Far from producing such evidence, the Republicans were often reduced to questions prefaced by such phrases as "some have charged that-" or "there is a report that-." Many a Republican on the committee was frankly impressed by the Secretary's well-briefed grasp of facts, dates and documents. Wisconsin's waspish Alexander Wiley said to him: "You have had a long chore, sir, and have done a grand job for yourself, I would say, with that mind of yours. Keeping everything in it is a remarkable accomplishment." Some seemed bedazzled...
Czarist Parallel. Few historians are better equipped to tell this story than Briton Arthur Bryant. In two previous books (The Years of Endurance, Years of Victory), he covered the decades 1793-1812 with the grasp of a Gibbon, the imagination of an epic novelist. The Age of Elegance is the last of a trilogy and, if anything, more readable than the others...