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Word: grips (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...troubles of Europe," he snapped, "will reach their climax during 1938 and 1939, and in the meantime our Government's three-year arms program is hopelessly in arrears. . . . The Baldwin Government is suffering from paralysis of phlegmatic composure. It has no grip, no driving force, no mental energy, no power of decision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Summary of Progress | 6/1/1936 | See Source »

Sitting down to compose his resignation from the Socialist Party, the Hosiery Workers' President Emil Rieve cried: "Black reaction would grip the country if Roosevelt is not returned to the White House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Plunge For Roosevelt | 5/11/1936 | See Source »

...Chamberlain and Mr. Eden jointly lavished their best efforts, "Augur" charged that this was last week in course of being knifed by Sir Samuel Hoare & friends as a blow at the Chancellor's chances of becoming Prime Minister. Concluded "Augur": "Mr. Baldwin seems to have lost his grip on the situation entirely. Unless he becomes active soon and stages a comeback the outcry against him in the ranks of the party and among the public generally may become overwhelming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Britain to Belgium | 4/6/1936 | See Source »

Caught in the grip of a flood problem that has vexed mankind since pre-historic times, Mr. Westcott and his much-lampooned kitchen fell victim last week to the sinister power that is sour milk. Science, with all its starry array of meat-choppers, lemon-peelers, and assembly lines for manufacturing potatoes an gratin, had no way to tell of the fallibility of the bovine world till the crescendo of sensitive student's protest reached a revolutionary shout. A system so mechanically perfect, yet so hard and insensitive to the demands of the taste buds, has lived too long with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A MATTER OF TASTE | 3/26/1936 | See Source »

Getting a grip on himself, the President's third son presently calmed down, posed, remarked: "It's not you I try to dodge- it's the columnists I don't like!"* Then, angrily denying their engagement, he finally reached the girl he had been so frantic to see again - blonde Ethel du Pont, niece of President Roosevelt's bitter antagonist, Liberty Leaguer Irénée du Pont...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 16, 1936 | 3/16/1936 | See Source »

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