Word: binds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...helped celebrate the 100th anniversary of the day when one Edward Henty landed a stake of cattle, poultry and ploughs in what is now Victoria. Since then Victoria has become the most thickly populated corner (1,818,080) of a Commonwealth that Britain wants to bind to herself by every possible tie of sentiment and advantage. Last week Gloucester finished a fine two-month job of binding, by sending off the first plane on the new Australia-London mail service. Aboard the plane were Gloucester's own Christmas cards to family and friends, due to reach London the day before...
...understanding of our life and institutions such as only this kind of meeting may give. This example is a fitting one for other nations. Groups of students from every nation would benefit greatly from such opportunities, and the understanding received by their contact with other peoples would tend to bind all nations in bonds of understanding and sympathy, so rare in world politics today...
...sincerity ... a man should have who holds high public office. West Virginia's Senator Neely: I refuse to vote for another crucifixion. I refuse to participate in compelling one of the President's most useful friends to drink a bowl of hemlock. I refuse to help bind a Columbus of the New Deal with chains. I shall vote against the crucifixion, against the hemlock and the chains. . . . My act in so doing will be to me in future years- A rainbow to the storms of life: The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, And tints tomorrow with...
Philbrick turned out to be a difficult prisoner to manage. Although his captors had no wish to use force to keep him quiet in his Adams House prison, they had to bind him before they could get any photographs. However, in spite of these precautions, Philbrick succeeded in escaping shortly before six o'clock...
...more tradition's chains shall bind us, Arise, ye slaves, no more in thrall...