Word: grips
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...treaty-wrecking example boomed down the Danube last week and emboldened Handsome Adolf's native land to rearm too. Little Austria's "defy" to the Powers that defeated Imperial Austria was however, a discreet and muted echo of big Germany's. Timidly Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg whose grip on congested Austrian politics is steadily growing limper, announced: "The Cabinet Council expressed the unanimous conception that the granting to Austria of full equality was a self-evident supposition." In a firmer tone he removed Austrian rearmament from the realm of supposition by adding: "The necessary procedure to increase...
...Administration entered its third year, President Roosevelt was directing most of his efforts toward recovering his grip on the 74th Congress, which was entering its third month without having accomplished for the President any of the major tasks...
...leather aprons finish the sword on which they had been working for three days. Moving from one anvil to another (each with a different ring), Kenneth Lynch saw that the blade was drawn, beveled, tempered, burnished; the quillons bent and chased to form a swept hilt and the grip wrapped with steel wire...
...with synthetic Bengalese, an increase of 31 ⅓ % in population. Paramount dropped $30,000 of the million and a half here, gave most their first glimpse of an elephant, almost succeeded in driving a few of our topers into taking the pledge. My congregation upped one, a gloriously illuminated grip-man, one of eight rewarded with a gallon-of-whiskey bonus by the director for working all Saturday night...
...tons of steel it delivered last year U. S. Steel made an operating profit of $5.86 as against $3.25 on a production of 5,536,000 tons the year before. It was clear that Steel's management had at last got something of a grip on the expenses of its sprawling empire. What was needed now was sufficient volume to offset annual depreciation of more than $40,000,000 and other charges that last year amounted...