Word: bring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...better situated where the second housing unit is planned, and an octagon might prove more suitable for the lot on which the fourth unit is to go, since there must be ready access to the new yard) these will vanish under such attention as the committee hopes to bring to the matter. The architects may well look to their laurels when undergraduates show more discernment than they have...
From time to time the system does lead to happy results, as in the recent appointment of Mr. Gow as Postmaster of Boston. Perhaps the next four years of Republican rule may even bring a new post-office building to replace that antiquated structure whose granite is still chipped by water that fell on it during the great fire of 1872. And in this matter of repaying loyal party workers, no gentleman in public life, however aggrieved by elections or other petty matters, would demean himself by similarly dampening the Roman candles of this Republican triumph...
...explanation was offered. None seemed likely to be offered. But shrewd observers remembered that in the next Congress Oscar De Priest will sit as Representative from the First District, Chicago. Naturally he will bring Mrs. Jessie Williams De Priest with him to Washington. The shrewd observers recalled that Mr. & Mrs. De Priest are Negroes-he being the only black man to sit in either house of Congress since Negro Representative Henry White of Tarboro...
...carried out. In spite of the example of last year, volumes of reading have been prescribed, covering material sometimes vastly more extensive than could be accomplished in the six lectures which formerly were held during the corresponding two weeks. Such an increase in the assignments can hardly fail to bring with it unfortunate results: the work is performed in a more superficial manner which does not produce the same lasting value, and when examinations finally set in, the student at once feels the strain which has been imposed upon...
...discord and confusion, his success is due in no small measure to his habit of plain speaking and of vigorous handling of elements widely separated in the Harvard scale. Comprehension by alumni in other parts of the country of what he has done and is trying to do will bring the approving support which he has already won at Harvard...