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Word: grabbing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Grab Bag?Ed Wynn in a review of, by, about and with Ed Wynn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Musical | 8/18/1924 | See Source »

...grab him by the tall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JOTS AND TITLES | 5/16/1924 | See Source »

...gold medals, and in eight of the same events in which lies Princeton's strength, substituting the javelin for the shot put as the ninth. Yale's greater scoring strength lies in the greater number of her man who are able to follow up their first place winners and grab the second places as well as the first...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE-PRINCETON MEET LEAVES EXPERTS GLOOMY | 5/13/1924 | See Source »

This makes the whole business a merry game, like the principle of the grab bag reversed. You throw money in and you haven't the slightest idea where it's coming out. If any further inducement is necessary to move the class of 1927 to whole-hearted, open handed giving, the fact that publicity will be accorded benevolence through a possible use of moving pictures should be particularly compelling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE WIDOW'S MITE? | 5/7/1924 | See Source »

...will fight tooth and nail against the oil interests that are seeking to grab the world, until he finally gets control of the major portion of the world's oil production or else exploits it advantageously for himself in a trust in which his fellow members are Rockefeller, Rothschild, Sinclair, Urquhart, Kemal Pasha and the Soviet Governments of Baku and Batum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Nach dem Tote | 4/28/1924 | See Source »

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