Word: grips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Princes. He retained his grip upon Mongolia for only a year. Then he disappeared for a time, and later set out on a world tour upon which he was received by President Coolidge and many another. Two months ago he left for China from New York...
...mathematically learned as a veritable genius for abstruse calculation, and he has long employed that faculty in toying with the difficult problems of aerodynamics. Intrepid, he was the first Frenchman to fly with Wilbur Wright. Since the early days of that adventure he has kept a firm grip upon both the practice and the theory of aeronautics...
Despatches indicated that the allegedly pro-Bolshevik Feng was having difficulty in consolidating his grip upon Tientsin. The International train between Peking and Tientsin has resumed its schedule, which was suspended during the Feng-Li engagements...
...addition to one of the former imperial castles. He has already lived seven years at Doorn not without luxury, amusing himself by growing a beard, and the general public by sawing wood for exercise. The fates who pursue fallen great men to the end seem to have lost their grip. This latest development makes him, by any economic standards, comfortably well off. There are not lacking hints that he will occupy the newly acquired castle in person; in which case, he will be able to entertain distinguished foreigners by the score who eare to listen to his diagnosis...
...content itself with out-playing the Crimson, but Harvard will have the long awaited satisfaction of a superb halt to Yale's victorious rampage of the last three years; while Mr. George F. Gundolfinger will doubtless settle down to write another version of Why the Bulldog Is Losing Its Grip. The Princetonian...