Word: binds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...teeming towns, over and around its coal-laden mountains criss-cross some 57,000 miles of trackage (one-fifth of the nation's total) valued at ten billion dollars (almost one-half the nation's total). Three hundred lines, long & short, in this area serve 52 million people, bind together eight of the ten largest U. S. cities, with shiny roadways to the sea and world markets. For generations this empire has been a battleground wherein corporate giants fought for dominance by fair means and foul. To it last week came a truce, perhaps permanent peace, when the Interstate Commerce...
...ventured outdoors, all lend variety to Author Mackenzie's reminiscences. The touching story of Vagabond William Cobb who lived & died in the attic of empty No. 25, and the final setting straight of his Aunt Adelaide's crippled Victorian romance are matters of a longer fibre that bind the scattered memories into a close-packed nosegay...
Deadlock? The Smith strategy was simple: Bind the "favorite son" states to stand by their candidates until the Roosevelt strength is broken; into the deadlock introduce a strong impartial candidate for all factions to nominate...
...diary explaining that he died April 4, would arise June 24. Mrs. Aubel and Son Paul said they had given the cripple no food since March 20, "because the Lord told us to starve him to drive out the devils." Gibbered Paul Aubel: "The Lord told me to bind him hand & foot and cast him into outer darkness. I tied his hands & feet, but he chewed the strings and I tied him again. He died the next morning...
...last week and how should it be spent. There are the Divisionals to remember, but surely that is a dull thought. If four years will not prepare you adequately, what will one week avail? And anyway, there are the long afternoons and the longer evenings in which to bind together the slender sheaves of thought and memory. The Vagabond has devised another way to pass the mornings for his seniors. In his good years here he has formed many friendships with the Professors. They have not known him, nor have they seen him, for therein lies his excellent wisdom...