Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have to consider whether a student who hasa lesser grasp of English can compensate by theother things they bring to a section, like insightinto a particular language or region," Feldmansaid...
That was Roamno's first mistake; overestimating the firmness of MacKinnon's grasp on reality Romano believed that since there was no way she would actually accuse him of rape without his ever having physically touched MacKinnon, she would be forced to concede a flaw in her theory...
Others even contend the course's lack ofintensity helps them grasp the material...
...book covers one liturgical year. What preoccupies the author is the role of ritual -- the dailiness of religion -- in a world that has largely lost faith. The Kreers are not strong enough characters to sustain that ambitious theme, but there are compensations. Wilson has a lethal grasp of parish politics. He watches gleefully at the plotting of the low-church Spittles, who had poisoned Kreer's mother's mind against him. Seizing the moment, his ecclesiastical superiors finish Kreer...
...enough to have to live at 29 Garden Street. And now, as the Cambridge winter's grasp tightens around the neck of the class of 1997, the unlucky residents of Harvard's hotel cum dorm have to endure the additional insult of being hungry as well as cold...