Word: bring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rearm Great Britain as speedily as possible. Since the British Navy is still the favorite arm of the King's subjects, and since present British Naval battle planes are notably behind the times, it was both conferring a great honor and making a smart move last week to bring "Flying Sam" Hoare back to full Cabinet rank as First Lord of the British Admiralty-i. e. Secretary for the Navy...
...only is an Anglo-Italian rapprochement desirable but it is necessary, and I will do everything in my power to bring it about. ... I do not see why there should be an armaments race in Africa. The garrison in Libya [adjoining Egypt] will not be withdrawn until an entente in the Mediterranean can be brought about, but the whole force will be brought home as soon as the British ships are withdrawn. . . . We are not a people given to rancor...
...Fishing Co., greatly excited, notified Lloyd's. Lloyd's outlawed Girl Pat, notified its agents along the Atlantic and Mediterranean to watch for her, then came to the conclusion it would be cheaper to pay the ?3,000 insurance than to run the tiny craft down and bring her back. Hence, no orders were issued to hold Girl...
...eminently civilized. Long suspecting that there was nothing in the devil-fear to which the islanders had been addicted, Tatagu led a fishing expedition to sea one day, pointedly neglecting to affix to the prow of his boat a vine or "string" which was supposed to placate the devil, bring a good catch. After three fruitless days the tribesmen were about to rebel, when Tatagu spied a large school of the succulent makasi fish. Returning home in triumph, the Chief of Chiefs learned that a son had been born to him. In accordance with a local custom of naming progeny...
...hoped by those who wrote these letters that impartial statements from authorities concerning the value of planning and of integrated professional instruction for this work, would bring to the attention of University officials the "far-reaching effects which will be produced by the discontinuance of the only school of planning in America...