Word: grips
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...here. Welcome home. Rock." "And there in that happy land, beyond the black, where the stadium is of silver, the goal posts of gold and all games are won, those two whose friendship and affection became one of football's finest sagas must be clasping hands in joyous grip again...
Thus Yale won the first grip on the current series which still has one, possibly two more games to go. Harvard will journey to New Haven next Saturday in an effort to even the count and if the Crimson players come out on top a third game will be played in New Haven the following Wednesday. To make this third game necessary Harvard will have to show an entirely different brand of hockey from that which it exhibited before a capacity, crowd at the Garden Saturday...
...Indian National Congress maintained its grip on the entire native market for foreign cloth in Bombay (several hundred shops), which has been closed for six months. Nevertheless Bombay (chief commercial city) and Bombay Presidency are not India, and imports to the entire continent fell only 25% during the first eight months of 1930. Mr. Gandhi's boycott is credited with reducing imports (i. e., sales by Britain) 5%, the rest of the decline, 20%, being charged to "Depres-sion...
Mayor Thompson has long nursed a great hatred for the Chicago Tribune and its publisher, Col. Robert Rutherford McCormick, brother of Medill. In last April's Republican senatorial primary the Mayor supported Widow McCormick for the expedient purpose of eliminating Senator Charles Samuel Deneen's political grip on Chicago. But the Mayor was no man to support a McCormick for actual election. Therefore last week he prepared a leaflet designed to turn Negroes from Nominee McCormick to Nominee Lewis. Unwilling to sign his own name to the broadside, he first attempted to induce Negro Congressman Oscar De Priest...
...least six actual stockmarket panics. Last week it failed. Almost coincidentally a "New Economic Theory" seemed to sweep the emotions of volatile stock-traders. Though few Wall streeters have ever read Oswald Spengler's Der Untergang des Abendlandcs, it was easy for them to imagine a world in the grip of conditions more awful and appalling than ever before. Prices will never go up again; the world will seethe in war and revolt; all mankind is doomed to a steadily decreasing standard of living until poverty, per-haps starvation, is the rule of life?such talk made spice for bear...