Word: bring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secretary of the Interior Roy Owen West called, to bring the President up to date on the Boulder Dam (Colorado River) project and also, presumably, on the Hoover campaign as seen from Washington...
...said there was "little doubt" about the following States, whose 38 electoral votes would bring the Smith total...
...that Nominee Varney had done anything, or was likely to do anything, to bring disgrace upon himself or the historic Prohibition Party. But some members of the party, believing that Nominee Varney could not possibly be elected, were for surrendering the party as an independent political unit and handing over its entire vote to Hooverism, the Dry defender against the dread and dripping Brown Derby...
...turnover on futures contracts in commodity markets already reaches some thirty or forty billions of dollars. They . . . touch directly the lives of comparatively few people. Yet there have been indications of a more widespread realization of the important place these organizations occupy in the marketing structure. . . . The futures exchanges bring into the market a large number of equity traders who . . . lift the burden of risk from the shoulders of producer, merchant...
Women Patients. In foyers, away from the mass meetings, the men discussed what to do with prudish or amorous women patients. The best conduct, by general approval, is to treat the woman impersonally, as if she were a mere head of beef. Let the prude bring in a companion; let the companion sit guard in an uncomfortable iron chair. Many women become amorous as they recline in the dentist's chair. The prudent dentist hurts such patients enough to make them forget their involuntary eroticism. All agreed that the practitioner who coos to female clients is a fool...