Word: bring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This last generality, fond and frequent bon mot at parting of many parents; has often served to bring home their son earlier than they ever dreamed, Recognition of one truth is looking more and more at Harvard: that no single outside activity, athletics included, will so surely build a good citizen as conscientious application to college study. In the days when this idea bore the brand of propaganda it was quite properly abhorred, but recently it has achieved a renascence that seems unthreatened by even the ignorance of the familiar playboy. Mr. Slocum is carried on the wings of Pegasus...
...nest egg the budgetary surplus for the year just past, amounting to ?4,250,000. Further to swell the fund, Mr. Churchill established last week, to take effect at once, an increased tax of four pence per gallon on automotive gasoline and oils-a tax which he declared will bring in ?14,404,000 ($70,000,000) this year "and more later." The immediate result was that last week the price of a gallon of gasoline jumped four pence and a farthing (8^c?) throughout Great Britain. Motorists cursed. Bus companies warned of increased fares...
...cannot stomach this way of making profit of a tragic situation under the mask of charity. Here we have everything that is necessary, and we do not need people to come from the United States to bring us serum. We can get along without American doctors be they the most accomplished specialists of that great country...
Last week Ralph Richards was set upon the trail of several of his former companions in crime. Foolish policemen were satisfied when Ralph Richards promised to bring his cronies to an appointed meeting place for arrest. The police unleashed their captive and waited at the rendezvous, but Ralph Richards failed to make good his promise. Policemen did not know whether he had absconded alone, rejoined his "gang" or been murdered for treachery, by its members...
...morning they set out in a giant Ford trimotored liner. At Lake Ste. Agnes, Bennett had a fever of 102, could go no further. He was rushed to Quebec, deathly ill of pneumonia. Commander Richard Byrd came to his side; Col. Charles A. Lindbergh made an inspired flight to bring him succor (see MEDICINE, p. 22). Canada suddenly contained a noble percentage of the world's greatest fliers, for by now Clarence D. Chamberlin had joined the arctic air circus...