Word: bidding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...serve," wrote General William Tecumseh Sherman to the Republican convention of 1884, in the most emphatic, most widely quoted (and misquoted)* nolo episcopari on record. Last week Minnesota's outspoken Harold Stassen as emphatically announced his determination to win the Republican nomination in 1948. The formal Stassen bid, 18 months before convention time, was as unparalleled as General Sherman's brusque withdrawal...
Some new schools bid for fame and favor by adding a progressive wrinkle to Education's old face. But New Hampshire's three-month-old Cardigan Mountain School boldly reached back for ideas almost old enough to be new again...
...home, when I saw my mother in the street with another woman. . . . My mother, spying of us, says to the other woman, 'Here come Master Debase with a Fleming. It may be they may bring some news of Ned, she little knowing I was he. The old man bid me say nothing, he being pleased at the conceit [joke]. When we came to my mother, she looked on me, but knew me not, but asked the old man if he could tell no news of her child. ... The old man bid her patience; she should well hear. This...
They could be sure of a clamorous welcome wherever they went-at least outside the New York City area. From every city they had visited, alluring invitations continued to pour in. Philadelphia bolstered its earlier bid with a station-wagon load of new maps and photographs. In from San Francisco, Mayor Roger Lapham hurriedly rushed around New York with a final sales talk...
Candidates for the other seven slots on the team though they do not measure up to Jones caliber bid fair to make the Freshman wrestlers a hard outfit to beat. At 121 is Jim Waddell, a matman with experience at Andover while at 128 Frank Harris from Milton and Jim Westfall, another Oklahoma product, are trying...