Word: grips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...though; at one time it was thought that Latin and Greek were absolutely essential. Now that stage has been outgrown, it is similarly qnite possible that in time the present college ideas on college education will change and adapt themselves to the money-making psychology which has such a grip on this country...
When Dictator Carmona returned to Lisbon, after putting down the mutiny at Oporto, he arrived in an armored car, and well supported by airplanes and troops, which enabled him to resume with bomb and shot his despot's grip upon the capital...
...time to break the Red influence of Moscow! [This referred to a few recent speeches in the Chamber by Deputies with radical leanings.] The way to break the strangling grip of Red Communism is to inject new blood into the Cabinet. . . . We must have new Ministers of greater vigor...
...field day," a shindig, the kind Denver loves. People scratched their heads to think up things they wanted or did not want. One man offered voice lessons for a tombstone. One wanted to swap a steamer trunk for a suitcase and grip. One wrote: "Will decorate your home as first payment on used car." Another: "Canary, fine singer; sell for $5." Police had to regulate the queues of would-be advertisers. Thirsty automobiles jammed the publishing districts...
...have the influenza scare every year, and we find that it is present again in a mild form. We admit we are powerless to act against it, because the actual cause of influenza has never been determined. The advice we give anyone suffering from a cold or the grip at this time of the year is either to stay in bed, or at home, and not to circulate the germ...