Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...instruction, while necessarily familiarizing the student with many specialized governmental problems, is designed primarily to provide a grasp of public administration in its broader phases. A primary objective of the School is to attract students of real intellectual distinction and to bring them together in an atmosphere of research and inquiry conducive to a better understanding of the long-range significance of public problems...
This is one of a series of advertisements in which the Editors of TIME hope to give College Students a clearer picture of the world of news-gathering, news-writing, and news-reading--and the part TIME plays in helping you to grasp measure, and use the history of your lifetime as you live the story of your life...
Modernist. Raymond Leslie Buell, onetime head of the Foreign Policy Association, does not oversimplify or resort to rhetoric. A seasoned student of World affairs, he has lately acquired, as editor of FORTUNE'S Round Tables, a firm grasp of domestic, economic and social problems. His book is a methodical 457-page study of the U. S. and the whole modern world. Finally he arrives at a detailed program. If Charles Beard's merit is irony, Buell's is intellectual thoroughness...
...years, is program annotator for the Minneapolis Symphony, author of a widely used textbook, A History of Musi cal Thought. On the podium he conducts with fury, grunting and grimacing while his hair seems to stand on end. Once in a gymnastic passage his baton flew out of his grasp. Once in a difficult passage, Professor Ferguson grew so pleased that he entirely forgot to lead. Neither time did the chorus get out of the groove...
...other consideration comes to mind. . . . In recent days we have only too frequently witnessed in the activities of high academic rank apparent proof that they have no firm grasp of the ideal of freedom of mind that Dr. Conant speaks so much about. We have heard and seen innumerable honored graduates of our great institutions of higher learning speak with a most intolerable attitude of the social and economic views of others...