Word: breath
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Great Britain to settle Ireland's most urgent problem immediately: Whether the Free State is to cease remitting annuities to the British Government for estates of British and Irish landlords divided and sold on the installment plan to Irish tenants. The Senators might as well have saved their breath. President de Valera pushed a ?2,000,000 emergency appropriation through the Dail for the establishment of new industries and opening of new markets, then refused to say how the money was to be spent. It was charged and not denied that the fund was a War Chest for Republican...
...with a musically vibrating voice and a changeable grey eye?was the town's biggest banker. Trueman, solid and more of a sport, was a cattleman. Their friendship was impressive, impervious to differences in their characters. It had become as substantial as a monument before it ended, in a breath of anger over politics, the year Bryan first ran for President...
Though his work is the breath of life to Vondorn he has enough wits to realize he must keep his lungs to breathe even that exalted air. He goes off to Rainbow Sanitarium in New Mexico, but his passion for astronomy is greater than his passion for health. He begins to work on his book Toward a New Space. Then two violet-blue eyes, across the sanitarium dining-room table, begin to work...
...championship, King Manoel's chair was vacant. He had waked up with a sore throat. After breakfast he went to see his physician, was ordered to bed. But not until afternoon did Dom Manoel obey. By then his throat was swelling rapidly, he was choking for breath. While his secretary telephoned frantically for Lord Dawson of Penn, Dom Manoel's diseased glottis continued to swell & swell until it blocked his windpipe, choked him to death...
...Elks paraded in Cambridge yesterday. All trousered in red, and accompanied by several puffing brass bands, they strutted up Massachusetts Avenue, wheeled through Harvard Square, a little out of breath, more out of step, but none the less they were a splendid, inspiring sight to see. Urchins, young Penrods, raced along beside them, inwardly echoing the glorious "oompah, pah, pah, oompah, pah, dum," of the horns and drums, and rejoiced, for it was good to hear. Freshmen hung out of the windows of Wigglesworth and watched languidly, glad for an excuse to leave their books, but watchful lest they forget...