Word: grabbed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conversion policy of Hindu Dharma had made it possible for the missionary religions of the world to steal away Indian population into their faiths by several unreligious methods, but thanks are due to Pandit Malaviya and Swami Shradhamanda that they realized the gravity of the "game of grab" and started the reconversion of those who had gone into other religions. People by hundreds have returned to Hinduism after experiencing the boons of Mohamedanism and Christianity...
...hard labors there are many times when a Representative desires to rest reclining. Said The New York World: "The situation demands investigation- and action. Members of Congress, like babies, are least trouble when they are asleep. Five hundred sofas would be cheaper than one good fat pork-barrel grab...
...James Gordon Bennett, the elder, fought for the rights of the people throughout the 37 years of his control of The New York Herald. . . . Ultimately the Herald found its way into the newspaper grab-bag of Frank Munsey, until today it is nothing more than a mouthpiece of the interests, with the only notice taken of the people being contained in the obituary column. "When Joseph Pulitzer founded The New York World he made of that daily a people's newspaper . . . The New York World today only carries the principles of Joseph Pulitzer at the head of the editorial...
There is also that great British theatrical institution, the pit. You stand in line at the door for a length of time in a length of queue depending upon the success of the play?then the whistle Wows and you all crowd in and try to grab the nearest available seat to the barrier that cages the pit-devotees away from the swells in the stalls. Thus, if you don't get your eye gouged out in the rush, you obtain what would be in I New York a $2.75 orchestra seat for a good deal less. The pit need...
...crew; and as for the system of control, when we see a really big man, who can manage the situation, and keep all the "parlor oarsmen" in hand, let's grab him. But until we find him patience and confidence! DENISON B. Hell...