Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...press conferences were circuses in which they fed their victim mock questions and played up his answers as gags. Governor 0'Daniel was distressed but helpless. Please Pass the Biscuits, Pappy had been his campaign theme song; the correspondents made him out a puling Pappy who could not grasp even the elementals of applied political pap. But the Governor, despite all his campaign japery, took his office seriously, trusted in simple faith to make up for his numerous incapacities, believed still that he as a good man could prevail over a host of bad men. Prominent among...
During all this time the other two boys had been left to shift for themselves. When they were old enough to grasp what was happening their training began. In a short time their performances not only equaled, but in one case even surpassed, those of their more tutored brothers...
...examinations were designed with the cooperation of the faculties of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Columbia and will test the student's general grasp of the principle subjects taught in a liberal arts college. These tests have recently been made open to Freshmen as well as Seniors. The student will receive a chart containing the results...
Michael Karpovich, assistant professor of History, when asked his opinion of Russia's decision, stated that "there is a good chance that Stalin decided on peace, although a complete victory was in his grasp, because of popular discontent with...
...exams, which are taken in two half-day sessions, are of the objective short-answer variety, designed to test the student's general grasp of the principal subjects taught in the liberal arts college, as well as the extent of his knowledge in certain of the fields of concentration...