Word: grips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the Federal Judge granted her a writ of habeas corpus, releasing her from the grip of the immigration service and allowing her to go undisturbed about business or pleasure in the U. S. The fact which induced him to release her was simply that adultery is not a crime in South Africa...
...French have planned a compromise type of expedition, using motor sledges in co-operation with collapsible amphibian planes. Their sledges differ from the caterpillar-tread ones that failed Wilkins, having suction-grip rubber "paws" on a traction wheel extended in front of the sled-runners...
...states there was a certain degree of coal shortage, but nothing very grave because of the influx of substitutes for anthracite. Tha most suffering was in Pennsylvania, in the coal mining regions, where not only the miners are suffering for lack of necessities but whole communities are in the grip of depression, merchants being in sad straits because of lost purchasers, and banks having to tighten their credit arrangements...
Despatches reported that Super-Tuchun Chang, who is reconsolidating his grip upon Manchuria (TIME, Jan. 4 et ante), has apparently incurred the active displeasure...
...well to stop right here. . . . Oh yes, just a word about "The Red Kimono". It is a sermon by Mrs. Wallace Reid on the life of the streetwalker and its attendant evils. Being a bit irrelevant as far as we were concerned, it didn't get a very vital grip on our interest, except as it distressed whatever feelings we have for art in the movies...