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Word: handgrip (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Through the bare corridors of the House Office Building one day last week padded an alert young German shepherd dog named Rex, a harness with a thick handgrip buckled around his shoulders. To the grip clung Rex's master, Dr. Harry P. Claus of Arlington, Va., a consulting engineer blinded in an airplane crash three years ago. Man and guide turned into a room where a sub-committee of the Interstate Commerce Committee was considering unfavorably a bill to require railroads to permit blind men's dogs to travel with them on trains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Lobbyists | 5/24/1937 | See Source »

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