Word: bring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...best way to bring about the failure of these disorders is to have the citizens reprove them, and those who are charged with keeping the public order should severely punish the disorderly elements...
...Conn. This younger man of Gypsy origin after the War became an itinerant preacher, and, to the regret of "Gypsy" Smith, took that word as part of his public name. There is no kinship whatever between the two men. It is bad enough that his unhappy marital affairs should bring into disrepute this younger man's rather crude religious efforts; but let not his collapse reflect upon a Christian preacher who for years has rendered blameless service to churches in many lands...
...June, 1927, about one-sixth of the 4¼% Second Liberties, then outstanding, were retired by an issue of 16-to-20 year bonds, bearing only 3⅛%. This year's offer was to retire at 3⅛% as many 4¼% Third Liberties as people cared to bring in for exchange, and besides to sell for cash $250,000,000 worth of the 3⅛% bonds, or about one-fifth the amount of Third Liberties outstanding...
Finally the high, nasal voice of Chiang Kai-shek in triumphant recital of the last will of Dr. Sun Yatsen, ending; "Fight on, my fellow workers! Bring about a People's Convention for the solution of our national problems and to abolish the unequal treaties with foreign nations...
...Globigerina ooze of the ocean bottom, the volcanic debris of the ridge top. To this end he has designed special apparatus: an enormous dredge with bulldog teeth which, lowered to the bottom will take greedy bites of the ocean floor; three miles of cable to take it down and bring it up again...