Word: gripping
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...great; from China to the shores of Lake Michigan; from Canada to the other world of Orpheus. This is as it should be; the undergraduate mind has ever felt free to embrace the world entire, both fact and fancy. One expects to find, however, in that embrace more real grip than is evident in the present instance. With but few exceptions, the pieces have the fussiness of old age, without the latter's choice reflectiveness; they lack the urgent passion of youth...
...Brien first explained the principle of jiu-jitsu and showed that the success of any grip depended solely on the leverage gained by the expert. The entire science is a knowledge of the laws of balance and equilibrium. There is not great strength needed; speed is the essential quality. He then illustrated various methods of fighting and throwing, among them a trick to prevent an antagonist from drawing a revolver, or from firing it once it is drawn. In concluding he showed several ways of breaking the best known wrestling holds...
...appearance of the English shell from those built in this country is in the arrangement of the thwarts, which are placed in two distinct alternating rows. The advantage claimed by this arrangement of the seats is that greater and longer inboard leverage can thus be obtained and a firmer grip made upon the water by the consequent shortening of the outriggers...
...audience from a figure which at the outset was not even animate, create a situation the acting success of which it is all but impossible to surmise. But there is no doubt about the fact that, as a reading play, it holds the attention with a firm grip, that it is full of action, humor, and skillfully maintained suspense, and that, as we have come to expect in Mr. MacKaye's work, the lines contain, especially towards the close, much poetical thought and fine imaginative expression. Finally, the drama is marked by a quite extraordinary intensity,-an intensity which...
...appearance of the English shell from those built in America is in the arrangement of the thwarts which are placed in two distinct alternating rows. The advantage claimed by this arrangement of the seats is that greater and longer inboard leverage can thus be obtained and a firmer grip made upon the water by the consequent shortening of the outriggers...