Word: grips
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rich Groceryman Frank Andrew Munsey bought 17 important newspapers between 1912 and 1924 and killed half of them through his thumping ignorance of practical newspapering, is that nothing has been right in the profession since "the grocers took over the newspaper business." Last week the grocers got a better grip on the magazine business...
...hear their labor boss, large-eared, dapper Vincente Lombardo Toledano, CTM Secretary General. Shouting, waving his arms, Orator Toledano hurled imprecations at the enemies of labor. The Mexicanos were enthusiastic, but not enough to suit Toledano. Dramatically pausing, the fiery-eyed labor leader leaned forward on the rostrum to grip his listeners once more. He was going to tell them something. The Government of Mexico, his roar rose to crescendo, faces danger, immediate danger, danger of a Fascist plot-a plot in which high officials of the Government are involved...
...Last week the American Automobile Association issued less vital but more controversial statistics when it announced that a survey of 10,000 persons between 20 and 40 years old in 35 U. S. cities had proved clearly that men are better drivers than women. Their average wheel grip measured 114 lb. against 63 lb. for women. They could withstand 58 units of light, whereas women could withstand only 55.1, and could recover in 5.55 sec. from glare which blinded women for 7.47 sec. Other tests indicated that men generally have quicker reactions, better hearing, better concentration when at the wheel...
...build up a profitable Chicago business in what true toxophilites call their "tackle." Hoogerhyde's proficiency with a bow & arrow really started in 1929 when he decided his form was bad. He shot 1,000 arrows a day for six months while slowly changing his arrow "anchor" grip from just behind his ear to under his jaw. Last week Hoogerhyde's rivals on the firing line were archers like Dr. Robert P. Elmer, the Wayne, Pa., physician who won the national title eight times, wrote the Encyclopaedia Britannica's article on archery and insisted on entertaining...
...Battle Creek golf professional who started to teach him the game when he was 3, Golfer Harbert is an amateur who uses a baseball grip and had never until last week bettered the 67 he made in the Michigan Open three years ago. Said he: "After I started with three birdies in a row in mv first round, I knew I was on my game and I just kept going. . . . On the final round, I was so tired I could hardly lift my clubs...