Word: gripped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...football there is the Warner system, the Notre Dame system, the single wingback formation, the double wingback formation, and a host of other categories into which a man or men may fall. In tennis there is the Western grip on a racquet and there is the Eastern...
Just how Herr Thyssen could retain his purchased grip, once the Nazis had all Germany at their mercy, few gropers have tried to explain. Great was their perturbation last week as Tycoon Thyssen popped up at Buenos Aires, 5,900 miles from Berlin...
With France in the grip of acute Deflation, neither her bankers nor the Government want another spectacular suicide. Last week was a good time for a smart Frenchman like André Citroën to sell his life dearly. Having hurled his ultimatum he sat back and did not have to wait long...
...reference to Britain's two-fisted grip at Suez and Gibraltar...
...tale goes on to show how Grip lost his life because of his vacillation. A condensed version for use at Columbia and Barnard contains such words as "horse" (harse in Maine, hoss in Boston, hawse in Texas) and ''fear and horror." in pronouncing which the speaker may drop an "r" out of one word or the other but seldom both. At the end is added an irrelevant passage which Professor Greet wrote after a trip through Virginia. People from around Richmond may be expected to read it thus: "The cyah frightened the cow in the gyarden. The girls...