Word: grips
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...examination" remains eligible for appointment. Moreover, should he so wish, the Postmaster-General was still authorized to throw out the whole first list and call for another from the Civil Service Commission. Real net effect of the "reform" is to strengthen the Postmaster-General's grip on patronage against grasping, ignorant local machine bosses. President
...consists of 35 articles, provides notably for the Catholic education of all children of Catholic parents in Germany. In districts where Catholics are in a majority the public schools shall be Catholic. Elsewhere Catholic children will attend separate Catholic schools. Thus Pope Pius retains in Germany a firm grip on what he likes to call "the dear youth...
...that his "resignation was accepted." Minister Balbo is supposed to have marched straight in upon II Duce, handed back the letter as "sent by mistake." That tale is told by antiFascists to illustrate their belief that Premier Mussolini fears his Air Minister because of the latter's personal grip on the Air Force. They go even further, hinting that Mussolini encourages his Minister to lead airplanes across oceans in the hope that he may arrive neither with his ship nor at all. True or false, the fact remains that Twin Grandi is out-a mere Ambassador to Great Britain...
...Hymn to the Night."-the hymn written by Organist Hermann Kotzschmar, his father's friend in Portland, Me. On his deathbed at '"Lyndon," his estate near Philadelphia, last week old Mr. Curtis, who would have been 83 on June 18, heard no music. Comatose, in the last grip of a heart ailment from which he had long suffered, he did not even see at his bedside his only daughter, Mrs. Mary Louise Curtis Bok; his stepdaughter. Mrs. John Charles Martin and her husband, his newspaper-publishing partner. Two days later the great pipe organ downstairs on which...
...success brought other skin sufferers to the Aquarium. One man said his affliction had resisted treatment for 20 years. His hands were so sore and scaly that he could not close them. After plunging them in the phage solution several times a week for three months he could grip a golf club. Last week Researcher Coates had 18 other favorable treatments to report...