Word: bring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...without a hat, not to refer to the Colonel, her grandfather (C. Aubrey Smith), by his regimental nickname: Old Boots. One evening the Afghans attacked the arsenal to distract attention from a detail which got Khoda Khan out of the lockup. In the expedition sent to bring him back, Sergeant MacDuff, Priscilla's particular friend, who had named her Wee Willie Winkie. came by his death wound. Wee Willie Winkie thought she would call on Khoda Khan and tell him that Old Boots wanted to be friends. Her arrival pleased the Khan because it meant the regiment would follow...
...very little chance it will pass. But it is on its way, and three years from now it will stand that much better chance of being approved." One purpose of the amendment, he explained, was to safeguard the rights of remarriage of innocent parties in adultery cases who squeamishly bring suits on such grounds as "excessive cruelty." When it was pointed out to him that under the amendment bishops would be free to authorize the remarriage of divorced adulterers as well, Justice Seymour snapped: "Why, no bishop would do that...
...weakest sister among the quarter-finalists, England's Peggy Scriven. Two days later, Jaja defeated erratic Alice Marble, 8-6, 6-2, in the semi-finals after being behind at 3-5 and set-point in the first set. This achievement made her a strong favorite to bring Poland its first title in Wimbledon history...
Pilot Tomlinson's most risky and most important substratosphere flight took place last January. Ordered to bring his Gamma to Manhattan for the Aviation Show, he and his assistant, Engineer James Heistand, deliberately took off from Kansas City in the worst possible weather, climbed to 36,000 ft. where they were still not on top of the bad weather. Nor could Tommy reach the top, thus exploding the "overweather" theory for that level at any rate. Flying in sleet without sighting land for seven hours, he finally reached the coast, began to "mush" down through for a landing...
...associations deliberately executed eight such practices as exclusive license agreements with wholesalers selling PGA balls, price discounts to members, coercion of nonmember retailers to prevent their selling balls at prices less than those designated by the maker. The effect, said the FTC, "has been unreasonably to suppress competition, bring about unlawful discrimination in prices for goods of the same grade and quality, substantially increase the cost of golf balls to retailers and the public and to discriminate against small business enterprises." A separate count under the Robinson-Patman Act charged discrimination in price "between different purchasers of golf balls...