Word: bring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Thorpe-le-Soken. She proposes to rent them to needy and worthy tenants for only "four and six" a week (4 shillings, 6 pence = $1.09). The ceremony of throwing bread and coals revived an old Essex custom equivalent to "house warming." The flung loaves and chunks are supposed to bring luck and prevent occupants of the new house from ever being without food, warmth...
...Ford plant in Dearborn is held the world's most exhaustive and interesting experiment in mechanistic production. Establishing a plantation in Liberia, Tiremaker Firestone attempts to readjust the world's rubber economics. As head of Sears Roebuck & Co., Julius Rosenwald directs a merchandising policy which threatens to bring many a U. S. manufacturer to terms...
Medicine knows no full picture of senescence. It knows many details?what diseases are peculiar to the age, how young ailments cause old crotchets, how various body parts wear out, how the mind grows dull. Little more detail did the New York conference bring out. Of a score papers only three or four dealt with the hygiene of old age. Practically all the others dealt with specific diseases. Yet the meeting was useful in collecting scattered knowledge and in focusing medical attention...
...Bond Astronomical Club, founded four years ago to bring together the professional and amateur astronomers of the community as well as the astronomically interested public, has at a recent meeting developed plans to provide an opportunity for anyone seriously interested in astronomy to take part in scientific investigations...
...mere chirographic methods fail to be sufficiently drastic, the institution of a demerit system would seem in accordance with the plan thus far so nobly advanced. Boys with a hundred demerits would not be allowed to sing in the Jubilee, or worse still, would not be allowed to bring the girl who wrote that mushy daily letter. Any boys naughty enough to have two hundred demerits in the bug head proctors book would have to stand with a committee of proctors all the time the class picture was being taken and never have, the fun of throwing eggs...