Word: grips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...church. Dr. Woelfkin will retire when Dr. Fosdick assumes the pastorate next January, but the question was of unseating the pastor because of his rich parishioner (Rockefeller) and his prospective successor. The Fundementalists in caucuses proposed "a continent-wide war to emancipate the Baptist denomination from the deathlike grip of the powerful combination of Mammon and Modernism," and asked: "Shall the Baptist denomination become the religious department of the Standard Oil Company...
Knowing well that his time would be much occupied when he reached home, Mr. Amundsen soon went below to continue answering a multitude of messages congratulating him upon his safe return from the grip of the north polar ice cap (TIME, June 29). Also he slogged at a book describing his experiences...
Trelawney of the Wells. Each year when summer first catches a determined grip and the Theatre loses all but a few lingering popular diversions, the Players' Club gathers unto itself an extraordinary group of notables and has a revival. There is something about these ceremonies that causes true devotees of the Theatre to hesitate, possibly to worship a little. To see John Drew upon the stage playing a scene in classic comedy with Laurette Taylor; to meet Mrs. Thomas Whiffin, Amelia Bingham and Violet Heming in the same cast; to hear ovations and the curtain speeches-all these things...
...work at the store in Pedlar's Mill, Dorinda wore a flame-colored shawl, bright symbol of protest. Her bee-stung mouth was another protest. Jason Graylock, rufous, crisp but unfound, came home from medical study to take care of his father. He thought he discovered his grip in Dorinda. For her, his charm, and love itself, were life's incredible increment. Wilting suddenly before old circumstances, Jason let himself be married to Geneva Ellwood, empty heiress. Out of this irresolution came, for Geneva, insanity and suicide; for him, drink, failure, consumption. Dorinda was first stunned...
Oxford was weak. Grip had come upon her crew, afflicted man after man with grievous coughs, so that, on the day of the race, an oarsman who had been in training only seven days had to he substituted at bow. Cambridge was not strong. Her eight sturdy rowers pulled strongly, smoothly; but there was in that boat a weakness in which, Oxford thought, Fortune might insert a wedge. That weakness was A. G. Wansborough, stroke. Thrice in the preceding week he had "caught a crab...