Word: bring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gentle, mild-mannered oldster of 76, who has been paralyzed since 1921, Congressman Mansfield created a furor in 1932 when he rolled himself down to the rostrum to sign a petition to discharge the Judiciary Committee from further consideration of a proposal to modify the 18th Amendment, and thus bring it to the floor. His was the 145th signature which the petition needed to become effective, a coincidence by which Congressman Mansfield professed to be greatly surprised. Last week, Congressman Mansfield surprised himself even more thoroughly by another coincidence of exactly the same kind. This time, the bill to whose...
...refusal of the University to allow Harvard's major football games to be broadcast next fall deserves serious and careful attention. By refusing to permit this broadcasting, the University is deliberately throwing an obstacle in the path that it had so wisely chosen to follow. These broadcasts would bring in a substantial sum each year which could be added to the present Athletic Endowment Fund. The addition of this money to the Endowment Fund is not to be lightly rejected, as Harvard's other major and minor sports cannot depend upon football's gate receipts forever. The sooner that athletics...
...spiritual, although at times he may have to use these methods. But he should be essentially a go-between--the person who opens up the stacks to undergraduates who have a definite need, who has time to explain the situation because that is his only duty, who could bring Widener even further down out of the clouds of graduate and professorial research into the lowest realm of ordinary students...
...into the muskrat business he has caught about 75,000 animals, which would mean more than 1,000 muskrat coats if he had sold them all for fur. Actually he sells many alive to other breeders, some as far away as Czechoslovakia. A pair of black muskrats used to bring him $50, twice as much as he gets now. Almost all the skinned muskrats are sold to markets in Baltimore and Philadelphia. Sometimes the meat is retailed as "marsh rabbit," sometimes as terrapin...
After eight weeks of striking, during which they made bishops attending an Episcopal convention go without clean linen, laundrymen in Cincinnati hit upon a new weapon to bring their bosses to terms: they opened two co-operative laundries...