Word: grab
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seems that when the genus home finally became a biped instead of a monkey, the tendency in battle was not to grab a meat axe, but to wrestle. Gradually the set-to between cavemen grew into an activity practiced for amusement's sake. The sport reached a high point in development with the Graeco-Roman method in the west and the Oriental style in the east...
After watching the wild men from the hills of Hanover trim our football team for the past few years, beat us in basketball, and grab the 1938 baseball championship from under our noses, it gives as great glee to see what happened to the Wearers of the Green last Saturday. First of all, the Indians were scalped in a skiing meet by the University of New Hampshire at a winter carnival in Durham, which isn't as serious as it seems because some of the Hanoverians were away at the Maine meet in Rumford. Then from New Haven we received...
Bird No. 1: a serious labor shortage in Nazi Germany, caused by the gigantic public works program and feverish rearmament efforts. Bird No. 2: serious unemployment in Czecho-Slovakia, caused by German grab of Czech industrial areas and the pre-Munich influx of refugees from Austria and the Sudetenland. Last week Prague and Berlin devised a stone to kill both birds: a plan to send 80,000 to 100,000 unemployed Czech workmen to Germany. Time: this spring...
That the U. S. became a nation of coffee-swizzlers was no more accident than Great Britain's taking to tea. Coffee reached England about 1650 from Arabia, tea about 1857 from China. In the interval, England's great East India Company let Dutch and French exporters grab most of the coffee trade. So British patriots turned to tea. Later, the East India Company tried to force its monopoly on the American Colonies under the notorious Tea Act. So American patriots held the Boston Tea Party and turned to coffee...
...slogan on the front cover of Nature, which Writer H. G. Wells has called "one of the best newspapers in the world." A weekly published in London, Nature is an international clearing house for major scientific research, the most famed scientific journal in existence. Scientists all over the world grab copies of Nature from the postman much as cowboys grab for their favorite pulps...