Word: wrest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...house established as Hart, Schaffner & Marx. The first year (1887) they did a $550,000 business; last year, a $35,000,000 business. Founder Hart survived his partners. Long interested in educational* and social work, he was a faithful donor to Jane Addams' famed Hull House on Chicago's Wrest Side...
...Annual sophomore-freshman tussle supposed to replace inter-class fights. Divided into lightweight, middleweight, heavyweight classes, three bouts are held. Object: to wrest a heavy stick, grasped at each end, from one's opponent. This year sophomores won two of the three matches...
...this, his first novel. The theme that the outward world is shaped by the needs and predilections of the inward mind is Proustian. So is Author Wilson's style, in which emotional complexities are explored in complex sentences. As the sensitive, completely sincere attempt of a metropolitan to wrest form from his muddled environment, the novel is valuable...
...Bremen!" Radio carried the massed cheering to remotest German hamlets. From stern Prussia to mellow Saxony the whole Fatherland throbbed and thrilled as croaking loud speakers announced that any moment now there would sail from Bremerhaven on her maiden voyage the giant S. S. Bremen-a supership built to wrest from Britain the trans-Atlantic speed record held for the past 22 years by Cunard's famed Mauretania...
...Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow. Returning home late at night, Lieutenant Bolanos saw some rough-looking men pasting up posters insulting to the President and the Ambassador. Lieutenant Bolanos went home and told his father. They returned to the scene, remonstrated. Aviator Bolanos rushed forward and attempted to wrest the offensive posters from one of the men. The billsticker drew a pistol and shot him dead. Despite the sacrifice of Aviator Bolanos, police next morning discovered hundreds of insults to Ambassador Morrow pasted about the city...