Word: graspingly
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...danger does exist. Realizing that such difficulties might arise, Professor Tat-lock in yesterday's CRIMSON said that "this is the first year of the contest, and it is likely enough that methods may be altered another year." A change that would put the awards more definitely within the grasp of the hopeful many would perhaps serve better the cause of scholarship...
...recently concluded season has seen a recuperation, and "Not Now,--Later" deserves to be ranked with the best of the Pudding opera. It was tuneful, well staged, and had its moments of humor. With these elements to support it, success was within its grasp. The unanimous opinion of those who saw it was, that far more than in recent years, had that success been achieved...
...people will cry "myth," while 100,000,000 will cry: "Isn't it grand!" Mr. Mazur takes prosperity for granted, though he admits that it contains a few dark spots. Keen in his own perceptions, he writes in a style that is easy and pleasant to grasp. He gives this booming country better advice than can be found in a fifty-foot shelf of the works of eminent boosters...
...safe to say, would not have signed the new regulations, last week, except for the fact that the U. S. now has in Mexico City a new and abler-than-usual Ambassador, Dwight Whitney Morrow, onetime Morgan partner. By large business methods and with a Morgan-sized grasp of essentials, Mr. Morrow has, in four months, cut the oil snarl which has embittered the U. S. and Mexico for a full decade...
...Imperial Family, "with a realistic grasp of the situation, went into mourning for but three days. The nation was deprived of cinema performances for two days as a mark of minimum respect. Some hundreds of little girls came voluntarily to stand and pray outside the palace at which Death came to a Princess whose name may be translated ''Eternal Happiness...