Word: bring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Moses of New Hampshire, installed as permanent chairman, made a bellicose speech. He referred to the Democratic convention of 1924 as "the Madison Bear Garden," and of the Democrats this year said: "Bring them...
...tapping. Ways may some day be developed by which the government, without removing papers from secret drawers, can reproduce them in court, and by which it will be enabled to expose to a jury the most intimate occurrences of the home. Advances in the psychic and related sciences may bring means of exploring unexpressed beliefs, thoughts and emotions...
...they thought of Bert Hinkler, lone voyager in an incredibly tiny plane (TIME, March 5); they thought back to Sir Ross Smith, pioneer of Australian aviation, who had flown 11,500 miles from England to Australia in 1919. A short hop of 1,795 miles, and they, too, would bring new honors to "Aussie," land of aviators...
Citizens. Kansas City, Mo., is the larger and more potent of the twins through no geographical advantage, but because of its citizens. They got out and hustled in the '60s to bring the railroad bridge across the Missouri below the Kaw's mouth instead of above. Later they were idealistic as well as industrious. While Armours packed beef, and Peets made soap, and Ridenours and Bakers prospered with groceries, an Indiana contractor named William Rockhill Nelson came to town and started a newspaper, the Star. He campaigned for parks, boulevards, better residential architecture. He got public baths built...
...Meanwhile the general death rate has decreased from 14 per 1,000 to 12.3 and the infant mortality rate has dropped from 89 to 70 per 1,000. . . . Clearly the time has come when a great new effort ought to be made [Cries of 'Hear! Hear!'] to bring down the percentage of maternal mortality . . . which alone shows no improvement...