Word: grips
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...apple that TWA will do a swell job with the new "excursions by air" at lower rates [TIME, Nov. 15]. However, maybe TWA and the other big shot airlines don't appreciate that there are many many thousands of us traveling men, oldtime "Knights of the Grip." or "Angels of Commerce" "Commercial Tourists" (or what you will), who would jump at the opportunity to go home over weekends from where we might be by air, but the outward trip should be Friday, not Saturday, or even Thursday (for the long week-enders). To compensate for moving it back from...
...economic problems. That principle is is that one of the functions of government is to look after the health of its citizens. It is obvious, when one stops to think of the contagious diseases--typhoid fever, dyptheria, and the like--which twenty years ago held the population in their grip, and which now are rare occurrences, how much public health services and public hospitals have contributed to stamping out these diseases. The democracy does provide curative treatment for its citizens, and to have this care extened to wiping out disease through prevention is just one step forward in the march...
...drawings. La Blanchisseuse and most of the other paintings were done on wood. Messrs. Rosen and Marceau discovered that each of the X-rayed wood panels had been scratched over as if by a fine-toothed saw, producing a texture like that of woven fabric. This gave a firm grip to the ground of gesso (whiting and glue) on which the paintings were made. In the absence of evidence to the contrary, this appeared to be a characteristic and unique practice of Daumier...
...with the Tammany District Attorney's Office. Here such grave inefficiency was found, and such evident connection between the prosecution agency and the gangsters who four years ago held the City in their grip, that Governor Lehman set up a Special Prosecutor, Thomas E. Dewey, with all powers necessary to clean up the town. Mr. Dewey's record for rooting out the gangsters at the top, and for getting his suspect convicted, has been nothing short of phenomenal, far better, indeed, than the, more highly publicized Federal Bureau of G-Man Hoover...
Wise Tomorrow's, opening was a printed enclosure: "Miss Barrett's limp is due to a sprained ankle." Long before 11 o'clock the play had developed other limps much more pronounced than Miss Barrett's and not so easily explained away. With an infirm grip on the unlovely figure of Lesbianism, novice British Playwright Powys had dragged it through three bumpy acts, upsetting the lives of an abashed cast and sending Manhattan first-nighters out into the October air looking gloomy and underfed...