Word: bring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...special session, the slump added another. This week, when Vice President Garner in the Senate and Speaker William Bankhead in the House thumped their gavels for the first time since last August 21, they were as uncertain as the rest of the U. S. what the session would bring forth. First thing it brought forth was a message from the President...
...living have been more beloved by their friends or maligned by their acquaintances than Ramsay MacDonald. A sentimental Lowland Scot who loved to write sad verses for his friends,* he was a founder of the British Labor Party, the first person to bring it to a position of importance in British affairs, three times Prime Minister of Great Britain and an intimate personal friend of King George V. Yet "traitor" was a word hurled at him over & over throughout the last 20 years. Because he spoke out loudly against British entry in the World War in 1914 he was ostracized...
...Earth, the effect of excess radiation received during sunspot maxima is to evaporate more water, bring on heavier rainfall, and thus paradoxically make the average temperature slightly cooler than during sunspot minima. The eleven-year sunspot cycle has been traced in the growth rings of trees. Stronger ultraviolet radiation accompanies sunspot activity and the aurora borealis displays are more numerous and brilliant, probably due to an increased bombardment of electrified particles. Such influences are now generally accepted as proved. It is the problem of sunspot correlation with such human affairs as stockmarket trends that leads out on the limb...
...large chunks to such things as flood control or navigation improvement. In the opinion of powermen, who must pay interest on the entire cost of their dams and plants, these write-offs made the yardstick something under 36 inches in length. The President's suggestion was to bring the two yardsticks in line-by cutting a few inches off the private yardstick. He said nothing, however, about lightening the "death sentence" on holding companies...
...perfect. He had the right bow to his legs, and sported a face that made mothers bring their children in off the streets. But as a Yale mascot, he was a complete...