Word: grips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Brokerage houses reported that individuals who had not invested a penny since the War, waiting for sound financial conditions, were now telegraphing their orders. Grizzled traders asserted that the Exchange was in the grip of an oldfashioned, bull railroad market such as has not been dreamt of for years. Big pools made profits. Many, stocks reached new high records for the year, among them: Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific; General Asphalt preferred ; New York, Lackawanna and Western ; Packard preferred ; Pennsylvania...
...Hall-King believes that the only solution lies in decentralization, in relaxing the grip of the central government over the industrial and political life of the people; but the steps for accomplishing this undoubted good are too vague and too difficult. The only other outcome seems to be that western materialism, introduced by force, will be poisoned in root and branch by the concomitant virus of class-conscious hatreds...
...grip on foreign affairs and his intensely moderate attitude, which has since been alleged to lack requisite firmness, soon brought him to the forefront of Liberalism. In 1902, he was made a Privy Counselor. Three years later, he became Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a position he held for a longer period than any statesman since the beginning of the 19th Century. His good work was recognized by Premier Asquith in 1912 when the King was advised to bestow upon him the coveted Order of the Garter. For the rest, his record in the interest of peace is well...
...mankind break the grip of the Arctic? Simon Lake, famed inventor of submarine craft, turned his attention to this question and last week propounded part of an answer...
...third successful appearance in Boston, "The Whole Town's Talking" begins to stand out as one of those rare performances which one enjoys more the second time than the first, and more the third time than the second. One is able at least to escape from the relentless grip of the fast-moving comedy to appreciate the skill with which every twist of the story is made to add a little more to the general excitement; one is not so entirely absorbed in following the action, one has leisure to ravel in the luxurious loveliness of Miss Owen, delightful mendacity...