Word: grips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White, when aroused against another female, may be judged from her scathing criticisms of the Church of Mary Baker Eddy: "The teachings of the so-called Christian Science Church . . . have drawn multitudes from the orthodox faith, and blasted their hopes of heaven! ... A person who is thus in the grip of Satanic power is unable to extricate himself . . . [and is] left in utter spiritual desolation." Well might buxom Aimee McPherson have quailed as she faced 2,000 tepid Britons, over 8,000 empty seats, the two Deacons and "Bishop" Mrs. White. No sooner did the Evangelist mount her pulpit than...
...elected last week by the Central Executive Council of the Nationalist Party, to serve as "President of the Government." Not for a long, weary while will it be possible to democratically elect a "President of China." For the present, the Nationalists ?who have just wrested China from the grip of the various bandit "war lords"? are frankly constituting themselves as a benevolent oligarchy?with the blessing and full recognition of the U. S. Government (TIME...
...concerned, the grip of that quinine monopoly has just been broken," declared Dr. Julius Klein of the U. S. Bureau of Foreign & Domestic Commerce last week. There was exultation in his voice: "Up until recently the European quinine manufacturers, working under an ironclad agreement with the producers in the Indies, had things going very much their own way. The trust regulated precisely the amount of the drug that was to come upon the markets of the world. It allocated certain definite quantities to each of the consuming territories. Its dictates were imposed inflexibly. It controlled the disposition and price...
...simple, tragic tale of a rat named Grip, who could not make up his mind, was a piece of red hot news last week. William Cabell Greet, professor of Phonetics and the History of English at Barnard College, Columbia University, assembled seven men from scattered parts of the U.S. to tell the tale of Grip to wax discs in a recording studio of the Victor Talking Machine Co. The idea: to preserve for posterity accurate specimens of U. S. dialects...
...program of discrediting Trotsky in Russia. Every book or newspaper article concerning him is censored, suppressed or distorted. New textbooks of Soviet history have appeared in which the great name of Trotsky and his creation of the Red Army is barely mentioned. With mighty Russia in the absolute grip of the Dictator, there remained last week small hope for any return to power of Trotsky, but merely the possibility that he was being championed before the plenary session of the Internationale. Naturally the press and cable censorship of Dictator Stalin made it impossible to know, last .week, how brisk...