Word: grips
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many a farmer and construction engineer has been exasperated by the way his tractor bounces and loses its grip over rough terrain, even though weights are hung on rear axles, hooked to the spokes. Last week, B. F. Goodrich Co., Akron, Ohio, announced a remedy which works if the tractor has pneumatic tires...
...applause subsided, he took a firm grip on the sides of the lectern and began: "For the first time in our national history a President delivers his annual message to a new Congress within a fortnight of the expiration of his term of office. While there is no change in the Presidency this year, change will occur in future years...
Widener would have more and better reading lists if instructors knew how much of an aid they are towards getting a bull dog-like grip on the material of a course. It is not hard for a teacher to post at the library a copy of his own outline of the term reading and lectures, tying the one to the other. Presently, nonetheless, only twenty one courses issue any sort of a list to Widener or Boylston, and a mere handful of these wholly show the connection between the reading assignments and lectures. The men in Economics 61a, Government...
...last year of his reign, excepting U. S. diplomats on official missions, George V audienced just two "Americans," Morgan Partner Morgan and Morgan Partner Lamont. King Edward VIII, again excepting U. S. diplomats, accorded audience during his reign to no U. S. citizen- an amazing fact, revealing the grip which permanent Court functionaries maintained over even an extremely pro-American King...
...interests, borrowed ?500 on Connecticut's produce to finance his wire-pulling, actively cultivated English gentlemen who had no compromising connection with the rebels. The result was that Connecticut and Rhode Island received liberal charters guaranteeing them freedom of worship, democratic rights, while England itself remained in the grip of repression for another quarter-century. Pious Rhode Islanders believed it divine mercy resulting from their steadfast adherence to God's laws. But shrewd Professor Andrews thinks that Englishmen were already secretly opposed to religious repression, willing to experiment abroad in granting rights they would not concede at home...