Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...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...
...battle reached its final stages, Adolf Hitler, with victory almost in his grasp, had to pay the price of his success. To make victory sure he hurled his troops recklessly against the trapped Army in Flanders. Hitler had told his men that he would rather lose 1,000,000 men in a short war than fewer in a war dragged out over many months. He had told them they would "be home by August." As usual it appeared that he meant what he said...
Last week Abbeville (eleven miles up the Somme estuary from William's embarkation point) and Boulogne were both in the grasp of Adolf Hitler. So apparently was Calais, nearest port to the British coast (25 miles from Dover). But the attempt by Hitler to invade Britain his power dream's dearest chapter-was not expected by experts to come from these beachheads...
There are certain obstacles as well as advantages which are peculiar to the short-story-illustrator. Howard Turner, I imagine, in order to produce a satisfactory illustration, must rely as much upon his ability to grasp the situation and circumstances of a story as upon his ability to manipulate a pencil. On the other hand, because of the necessary limits which are imposed upon the operations of an artist who is working with an article or an editorial, both Holabird and Bishop must be direct rather than subtle. Only in rare cases can the illustrator be called his own master...