Word: wrest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Amherst, Mass., April 9--Sabrina appeared briefly on the Amherst College campus today and traditional rioting followed as members of the even-numbered classes, seniors and sophomores, tried to wrest the 400-pound bronze nude from juniors and freshmen...
...Hiba passed his baton on to Brother Merebbi. For 16 years Merebbi's home has been the wide Moroccan Desert and the passes of the Atlas Mountains. By day he has worn dust on his tongue, sand in his eyes, and in his heart the resolve to wrest Morocco from the Christians. Last week a leather-skinned man stalked into the Spanish garrison at Cape Jubion the coast of Spain's colony of Rio de Oro south of Morocco. "I am a political exile from French Morocco," said he. "I ask for your protection. I am the Blue...
...president of the Harvard Liberal Club is quoted as conjuring up the dreadful possibility that, in the event of the non-adoption of a new constitution, the club might fall into the clutches of the N.S.L. The CRIMSON has also in the past suggested that the N.S.L. plots to wrest control of the Liberal Club from its guileless members or to commit them to policies contrary to their liberal principles. It might, therefore, be well to clarify our position, both in this matter and in general. We believe that the Liberal Club contributes valuable discussions of current social problems...
...Soong is the only man who ever balanced China's budget (TIME, Jan. 2), the only Chinese Finance Minister who ever held his country's extravagant militarists in check. Unfortunately Soong the Financier tried to make himself a popular figure by clamoring for Chinese efforts to wrest Manchukuo back from Japan. Chiang the Conqueror (of Chinese) knew that against Japanese his forces could not for the present win. He also resented the encroachment into politics of Soong, the money man. Cross current of intrigue and personal gossip further estranged T. V. and Chiang. Last week Mr. Soong...
...Communists the NRA appears as just one more capitalist plot to grind down the proletariat. To Socialists it seems like a bungling, inadequate attempt to apply government supervision to capitalism. But it does, they believe, offer workers "an exceptional opportunity to organize as a fighting force, not merely to wrest concessions from their 'partners,' the Government and the bosses, but to capture the former and to destroy the latter as a class." In New York City last week the Socialist Party was asked to cooperate in the NRA consumer campaign, to canvass housewives to sign pledge cards. Party...