Word: grab
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Juan Corominas, spokesman for the Spanish Left, threw the meeting into an uproar by charging that "Germany and Italy, by their intervention in Spain, are trying to grab advantageous positions for themselves." This drew howls from the Italians. The presiding officer banged with his gavel, reprimanded Corominas with the admonition that the Union takes no stand on political conflicts. The Spanish delegate hotly replied that he was not taking sides, he was simply stating facts...
These were not the only fascinating ears which Robert Carter Cook, editor of the Journal oj Heredity, fished out of the genetics grab bag. He also produced the ears of the Canright and Powell families. The ears of the Powells, starting with F. J. Powell, a retired merchant of West Lafayette, Ohio, are lobeless - i.e., the "lobes" are fastened to the skin of the neck. The ear lobes of Harry Lee Canright, onetime a medical missionary at Chengtu, China, and of his family are free. Dr. Canright's free-lobed daughter married lobeless Eugene F. Powell, zoologist...
...unclaimed deposits by gas, telephone and water customers, filed a series of informations between April and September 1935 that finally impressed Pennsylvania's Secretary of Revenue and moved him to start action. Then Governor Earle, responding to shouts by the Pittsburgh Press about a political "Sixteen Million Dollar Grab," urged passage of a law to require corporations to report all such escheatable sums directly to the State and barred fees to informers.* Last week's suit if successful will force Pennsylvania to go through with the Edelman & Creskoff informations on the 25% basis...
...spite of rejuvenated play last Saturday it looks right now that the Mitchell hands will do well to take two out of three over the weekend and split even with both Yale and Dartmouth. With such a setup Dartmouth is definitely favored to grab the flag while Yale and Harvard are a tossup for second. LEAGUE BASEBALL STANDINGS Dartmouth 7 1 875 Harvard 4 1 800 Yale 6 2 750 Penn 4 5 444 Columbia 4 6 400 Princeton 3 5 375 Cornell...
...supermarket needed, said President Sowles. was a women's apparel department. Last week in one section of the supermarket blossomed "Fashion Avenue." a row of five separate shops which are expected to develop a $500,000 annual volume. The shop windows have no glass, so that customers can grab what they want...