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...record during his few months in the senate proves that he has a mind of his own, as witness his American youth act, his investigation of the black legion, his proposal of a liberalizing amendment to the constitution, and his stoppage of the Minneapolis and St. Louis railroad grab. These accomplishments would do credit to any man's six years in the senate, to say nothing of six months. Then, with no previous experience in running for office, Mr. Benson went out and conducted a drive for election which would have done credit to the most seasoned campaigner...
...Thereafter, I did 93. . . . These are speedometer speeds, but the speedometer is one that satisfies Messrs. Rolls-Royce. . . . Farther on . . . I spoke a word of warning to my passengers and did a quick pull-up from 80 with both hands off the wheel. I was ready to grab and hold her, but the car stopped in a dead straight line as though snatched by a vast magnet...
...reputedly formidable junior varsity eleven from Hanover will grab for Crimson Jayvee scalps this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. Harvard starters are: l.e., Jameson, l.t., Schmidt, l.g., Baum, c., Rick Hedblom, r.g., Tufts, r.t., Barkin, r.e., Knapp, q.b., Jerome, l.h.b., Kelly, r.h.b., Houghton, f.b., Cohen
...York) offered a 455-page volume in which these mutations in the life of the French Quarter were painstakingly recorded, together with a mass of miscellaneous information and legend on the city as a whole that gave The French Quarter some-thing of the air of an historical grab...
...team that wins a league pennant is capable of beating any other team. In a four-game series the element of luck often is the determining factor. Witness the example of Fitzimmons' pitching in the third game or specific instances like Whitehead's grab of De Maggio's line drive in the opener...