Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...record of the '20s to the rich documentary fruitcake of Our Times.) Since Yesterday, however, is published after America in Midpassage by Charles and Mary Beard (TIME, May 22) and is in almost every way a slighter job. Yet Mr. Allen, although he has neither the historical grasp nor the mordant style of the Beards, has the advantage of doing his job in 346 pages to the Beards' 949. His story embraces neatly the scary and screwy decade from Sept. 3, 1929 to Sept...
...grown to international complication, is still all within the grasp of Juan Trippe's Argus-eyed mind, down to the last pontoon float on the Alaska run. He is still Pan Am's one-man filing cabinet. He had flung out new lines, directed deals for foreign landing rights, drawn performance specifications for new airplanes that were years ahead of current design, and kept manufacturers on a hectic hop. The line revolved in a controlled orbit around him, and him alone. The head of the Atlantic division knew all about his piece of the system, the head...
...Vagabond did brace himself for that full mighty deed. Ablution did he make within the chapel, and from the kindly priest did calm and courage take; and from the holy chalice imbibed deep draughts of the juice of the purple grape. His sturdy sword and buckler did he grasp, and kissed for the last time the dainty sleeve which to him his betrothed, the Lily Maid of Noanett, had bequeathed . . . the Lily Maid with lips so red, and bosom white as driven snow...