Word: grips
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enough to buy a Locomobile steamer. Tinkerish by nature, they soon were at the boiler and saw a way to improve it. The Locomobile company was not interested, so the Whites built a steamer of their own in 1900. They soon were in commercial production and obtaining a tight grip on all steam patents. The result was that other manufacturers turned to gasoline engines, started propaganda against steamers. In 1906 White offered to license its patents but found no takers. Quick to sense the change, the management turned to gasoline engines although it did not waver in its belief that...
...Ellsworth Vines: "I found Ellsworth working in Kay's Bakery Shop in Pasadena. . . . He had a Western grip and a roundhouse swing, was about six feet tall and his feet wouldn't be friends with each other. But he had the heart and the willingness. . . . He was determined to hit hard . . . while I fretted over errors...
Igloo (Universal) is the latest of many epics showing the prolonged death-grip of Man and remorseless Nature. Nanook of the North did it in 1922. Grass did it in 1925 for the nomads of central Asia, The Silent Enemy for the Amerindian in 1930. Grass was a symphonic study in time, space, herds and mountains. The Silent Enemy used a plot, a love triangle. Igloo follows the evolved formula of love against a landscape. Otherwise it is an unrelieved stagger through snow...
...What the Communists of today forget is that Marx and Engels constantly revised their theories as fast as they were contradicted by facts. In 1885 Friedrich Engels pointed out-and the world was then still in the grip of the crisis that had begun in 1873-that Capitalist production could not be stabilized, but must go on increasing if Capitalism was to persist. What would happen, he asked, on the day when, because of American exports to Europe, the British lion's part in supplying the world with goods should come to a standstill? How could Capitalism...
However unpleasant these photographs may be, every informed man and woman should get a good grip on his digestive system and look carefully through the pages. If it is to have the effect which the men who compiled the book hoped it would have, it should be printed in the cheapest possible editions, and be broadcast throughout every literate nation. If it is widely enough seen it cannot fail of that effect. "The Horror of It" is an example of militant pacifism, in contrast to the pacifism which sits back and whines because it does not like fighting. Such pacifism...