Word: grips
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spawned mutiny. Tennessee's hulking Browning, A. E. F. field artillery captain, induced the caucus to adopt an amendment prohibiting the President from discontinuing a single pension now on the rolls and limiting his cuts to 25%. For the moment Speaker Rainey and Leader Byrns had lost their grip on their party, for the Browning amendment practically nullified the bill's purpose. If the caucus had bound itself to that proposition, President Roosevelt would have been ditched by his own House. But it takes a two-thirds caucus vote to bind. The party leaders, no greenhorns, skilfully shifted...
...unfortunate if unavoidable fact. Undergraduate opinion almost unanimously would condemn the course as dull to the point of stupidity, uninspiring, and relatively uninstructive. Leaders in the de- partment have replied to the writer's criticism that the lecture system is incapable of giving the student a firm and realistic grip on the difficult problems of economic theory. They point to past experience for support. With unconcealed sense of martyrdom they explain how and why the lecture system was abandoned in the past. The fact remains, however, that dissatisfaction with the course is almost universal in the student body...
Author Ford Madox Ford, an almost U. S.-acclimatized Britisher, still makes little leaps in the dark when he comes to some Americanisms. He writes of a woman getting drunk as "canning herself"; makes Hero Smith figure out that the foreign word "valise" means "grip"; but neglects to translate "spanner" into monkey wrench...
...fills the position that Beekman Pool held last year, it must be admitted that he is fast attaining the latter's ability and speed. At the first of the year his game was not too steady, and several times during the season it seemed as though he lost his grip temporarily. However, his game is now reliable, and he is in a position to do a piece of good work to finish his first year of Varsity play. Huntington Hartford, who holds down number 2 berth on the first team this year, has played an inconsistently brilliant, uncertain game...
...remained for Senator Glass to curl his lip scornfully, grip his desk with both hands and pronounce a final damnation of the Soft Money arguments. Drawled he out of the right corner of his mouth...