Word: grips
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...play what he prefers to call tisch tennis all year round. In the last four years, he has toured Europe, Africa, the U. S., won 524 trophies, never lost one of his 73 championships, except by default. He holds his rubber-faced racket with the tennis, not the penholder grip popular among his U. S. confreres. His best stroke is the backhand which he uses for nine out of ten returns. With his friend Sandor Glancz, Barna helped win for Hungary the Swaythling trophy, Davis Cup of ping-pongists, for which play will begin this week at the Wembley Swimming...
...English, then in French: "Honorable Members of the Senate: "Members of the House of Commons: "I welcome you at a time when our country stands upon the threshold of a new era of Prosperity. It will be for you to throw wide the door! During the past year the grip of hard times has been broken...
...part of the pelvic bone which forms the upper edge of the hip socket. The loosened piece of bone he bends down and wedges securely with bone grafts. After healing, the downturned chunk of pelvis acts like a claw to hold the hip bone within its socket. The new grip is just tight enough to let the leg swing...
...ecstatic leavetaking of foggy streets and captious husbands. Two noble ladies have been corralled to join them at the castle and share expenses. When the eager housewives arrive, the gentry are already firmly ensconced in the most desirable rooms. Jessie Ralph, as the determined old dowager, keeps a watchful grip on the teapot of hospitality, so that the suburbanites, far from playing hostess, must meekly pass their cups...
...President found himself second in the news not because his words lacked their usual magic but because editors found his speech too generalized to get a good newsworthy grip on. A quarter of his address was given over to warding off criticism. His declaration that the profit motive should not be destroyed answered a question whose embers have for six months gradually been growing cold. Headline sentence: "The Federal Government must and shall quit this business of relief." Keywords of his theme: "broad" and "sound"-"broad program," "broad problem," "broad subjects," "broad outlines," "broad principles," "sound policy," "sound administration," "sound...