Word: stranglehold
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flesh to the bone of his arms, his ankles, the back of his neck. Severe infection set in. North 3-1 survived but was badly crippled. The occasional complaint that reached the outside world was promptly explained as insane maundering of an unbalanced mind. For such is the inevitable stranglehold that a keeper has on his charges. Author North 3-1's testimony suggests severe indictment for the private sanitarium carelessly licensed, and of the state hospital crowded heterogeneously with murderers pleading insanity, with bona fide idiots, and with plain drunkards...
...Chamber of Commerce of Jersey City, N. J., last week named a committee to investigate charges reiterated by one James Burkitt, shockheaded, stump-speaking realtor, that Jersey City's high tax rate is the result of a corrupt stranglehold upon Jersey City politics held by Mayor Frank Hague, Democratic boss (TIME...
...office as a meeting room to reach an agreement with Labor, most of of them declined. Potent operators have organized their mines with non-union labor since last spring. Wages are where they (the operators) want them. Such operators congratulate themselves on having "broken Labor's stranglehold on the industry...
...trust making, "an attempt to publish all the books in the world"-as George Henry Doran once said he would like to do. To these murmurs Harry Hansen, literary critic of the New York World, replied: "So far as controlling writing-that is impossible ... no one can get a stranglehold on brains. The products of writing men crop up in the most unexpected places, and every now and then a wholly unknown and obscure firm makes a ten-strike with a newcomer. . . . The making of books is free and unconfined, and unless someone gobbles up all the paper...
...affected by syphilitic toxins. While he does not claim that his test will make possible 100% accuracy in diagnosis and complete cure of the disease, Dr. Wassermann believes that it will enable the forces which are already fighting tuberculosis with well-understood methods to get a stranglehold on it in its earliest stages and greatly reduce the present death rate...