Word: bring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...canna quite mak' oot what TIME is tryin' tae bring tae its readers by the "gaping" in that literary gem. I was born and brocht up ("raised" we say oot here) among the Ayrshire yokels, an' I dinna min' seein' them gap much, except when they might be tryin' tae read a newsmagazine as dull as TIME. No that ony siccan drivel was produced in Ayrshire, but there bein' nae censorship on dullness, some yawn-provokers frae the ootside at times got on tae the newsstaunds, an' were whyles bocht by chaps...
...also essential that the Prince of Moldavia marry the proud Princess of Wallachia. The true prince is unwilling to bother with preliminaries; hence the actor is offered his choice between a life-career in the salt mines and a chance to woo by proxy the foreign princess and bring her back for the real prince to wed. He chooses the latter and naturally falls in love with the lady he is supposed to deceive. It looks like tears for the finish until, on the day of the wedding, the real prince decides to abdicate and the actor, who looks just...
Against these rather superficial recommendations for the realization of the possibility of paid student leaders are ranged a number of disadvantages. Chief among these is that substantial remuneration for the administration of important activities would bring about a decline in the quality of competitors for the important positions. Many of the able men of the college have sufficient means to enable them to go through college without help. These men would be inclined to feel that it would be unfair for them to compete against men who were actually in needs of funds. Even in the absence of pure altruism...
Those men who have secured absentee voting ballots may bring them to the Union and swear to them before a Notary Public who will be supplied by the Democratic organization...
...beach was found floating last week the body of a dead man. On the man was only underwear. His clothes, discovered later on the Willys beach, contained the following memo: "Sunday-Took a trip to Oyster Bay. The afternoon is sunny and cheerful. Sorry I did not bring my bathing suit, as I find quite a few bathing and enjoying it." The ill-fated intruder on Mr. Willys' private beach was identified as R. A. Richard, Manhattan salesman...