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Word: grips (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Winthrop House Puritans have the firmest grip on the prize, and need only to win or tie their one remaining game with Kirkland's deacons on Thursday to make sure of the title...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 11/5/1935 | See Source »

...mornings later the Dixie's company watched a low bank of black clouds creep over the southeastern horizon. By noon a stiff blow was on. By 4 o'clock the Dixie was pitching, rolling and trembling from stem to stern in the grip of a full-sized tempest which had caught her in the perilous Florida Straits. Night came down and the storm increased, sending waves clean over her bridge, blinding her officers with solid sheets of rain. At 8:12 p. m. the Dixie's bottom grated over something that felt like a giant washboard, stuck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Wind, Water & Woe | 9/16/1935 | See Source »

Grasping Romano's shoulders with a soldierly grip, Il Duce said: "You have spoken well, but your military class has not been called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY-ETHIOPIA: With, Without or Against | 9/2/1935 | See Source »

Promoter Jack Curley. Aided by two enormous paws, a neck thicker than his head and a strange grip which he called the "Irish whip." Danno O'Mahoney promptly won 49 bouts in a row. For his 50th. he received the reward of a match with Jim Londos, principal claimant to the World's Heavyweight Championship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Merger on O'Mahoney | 8/12/1935 | See Source »

...only $762,000. Better still was the operating profit per ton of steel. On each of 3,553,999 tons delivered, the company made an operating profit of about $7.50 against $5.36 for the full year 1934. Thus it was clear that U. S. Steel had got a firmer grip on the costs of its Brobdingnagian household. Nonetheless the directors, still unconvinced that Recovery is here, voted last week to continue the preferred dividend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: State of Steel | 8/12/1935 | See Source »

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