Word: grips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Alice Weed, widow of one Beverly Weed, whom erring news despatches a fortnight ago asserted had invented "Weed" tire chains; at Jackson, Mich. Lieutenant Colonel Harry D. Weed, who invented and patented the tire chain and organized the Weed Chain Tire Grip Co.† in 1904, lives at Bridgeport, Conn., with his family...
...person of Handley F. Page*) last week announced that he had cut another step in the upward climb of the invisible precipices of the air. It is a niche which a slipping airplane can seize, grip firmly, and thus check its helpless spinning fall...
...apiece. Invested at 5%, the $1,059,494.08 surplus over building costs will yield $52,974.70 per annum, or $17,658.23 per temple, or more than five times the annual expenses of each of the 44 present Westover churches. Big Dan explains that preachers, powerless under denominationalism ("in the grip of this great un-Christian machine"), will gladly come to the temples. The Westover elders hope so. A temple rises, not without denominational dirty work...
...enliven religious activities in U. S. colleges. Having ended Union Theological Seminary studies, he took his wife, who had herself studied medicine, to China. There their baby was born in 1898 (the excitement interrupted one of the young father's most interesting letters), teethed, had colic, caught the grip, grew stout...
...Patrick left his flivver running, for the emergency, and hurried forward with his small black grip at the ready...