Word: backed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when he reaches Cana of Galilee, this prophet of the Republican party, perhaps we shall hear of a miracle-the changing of wine back into water-diametrically opposed to the one requested by the Mother of the Master...
...climbed, strode into the elevator, stepped out at the second floor and entered the big, dark, deep-carpeted office of Secretary Mellon. There he examined plaster models of the Government's new office buildings. Mr. Mellon stooped to point out the details. . . . Later the President walked briskly back to the White House...
...very solemn handshake it was that Herbert Hoover gave to Senator Reed Smoot last week in Florida as the next President bade the Senate Finance Committee Chairman farewell and sent him back to Washington as a special emissary. For three days they had talked, these two, the Utah Senator's thin querulous voice rising in vain pleadings for an early special session of Congress, for a general tariff revision. Mr. Hoover shook his round head. Many things had been made firmly clear and the parting handshake sealed all conclusions...
...test worked successfully again at a depth of 76 feet. When the S-4 attempted to descend to 20 fathoms (120 feet, slightly deeper than the S-4 lay off Provincetown) her periscope sprung a leak and she had to rise, be towed back to Key West for repairs...
They sent him a card and told him he had to practise. He went back and labored the long miles. Hurry up! they howled. I stood by the boathouse and saw him weld nerve and sinew to sprint the last stretch. He crossed the line, and fell on the grass...