Word: grips
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate Banking & Currency Committee to denounce investment bankers and suggest the creation by the Government of national industrial banks to provide capital to small businesses. Said he: "The time has come when the Government must step in and not only afford adequate facilities to business, but break up the grip of the investment banking group upon the money markets of this country...
...hospital room in little Lafayette, Ala. one day last week a fleshy, feverish old man lay still in the grip of lobar pneumonia. Having passed through several days of delirium, he did not know what day it was and he was too tired to ask. That was just as well. It was Election Day, and no one wanted to tell J. Thomas Heflin that at 68 he had again lost his chance to get back into the U. S. Senate...
...possibly could, brought it down into spaciousness. ... I was working toward the elimination of the wall as a wall to reach the function of a screen, as a means of opening up space. . . . The planes of the building parallel to the ground were all stressed-to grip the whole to Earth...
...recent dinner, Wartime Secretary of War Newton D. Baker was shocked to see two graduates of unrevealed colleges using a "banjo grip" on their forks. To Cleveland's Western Reserve University, of which he is chairman of the board of trustees, Newton Baker (a Johns Hopkins man) forthwith appealed against the bad manners of recent college graduates. Last week Western Reserve's downtown unit, Cleveland College, announced that at Mr. Baker's suggestion it was establishing a class in "The Technique of Social and Business Intercourse." The course's laboratory: teas and dinners...
...magnetic device to prevent high-speed trains from jumping the track on curves. The centrifugal pull of the train as it rounds a bend would automatically increase the magnetic grip between train and rails...