Word: bring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much corn to plant, get an extra 5% added to their soil-diversion bounty if they obey. If they exceed their planting limit, there will be a deduction for each extra acre. Thus the Department, fearing a surplus which would send corn and hog prices crashing, hopes to bring corn acreage from 1932-33's 59,000,000 and last year's 54-500,000 acres down to some 54,000,000 acres. Reluctant to discuss the matter. AAA legalites nonetheless conceded that this production control was quite as direct as that achieved under the AAAct. They expected...
...inserting "1936," Her Majesty was graciously pleased to let stand the fact that she beheld Mrs. Simpson when that wife was presented at Court in 1931, and that, after Edward of Wales had been strictly refused permission to bring Mrs. Simpson to the Jubilee Ball of King George, he brought and danced with her before his parents...
...some time to shake the Harvard Administration loose from its stand for full-fledged chaperones, and reactions after repeal of that law forced another rule saying no girl should visit a College room without the accompaniment of at least one feminine sympathizer. It must have taken considerable argument to bring them around to believing a "third-party" roommate would be able to handle the policing job satisfactorily...
George J. Peak, Winchester, Ill. horse breeder: "A horse is like a child. He will take advantage of a person who handles him in an uncertain manner. You can control him better if you are unafraid." Conceding the point for domestic creatures, Frank ("Bring 'Em Back Alive") Buck declared: "As a rule, 'man-smell' will make a wild animal run as fast...
...headed in that same direction again today unless we can bring the intelligence and courage of the engineer into industrial statesmanship. If increased wages and profits are to absorb the savings which the engineer produces . . . and there is not a reduction in price, which is essential to increasing consumption, thereby we are ourselves by our own neglect producing that mass of technological unemployment...