Word: bring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Department to "preserve the fish from cruel and wanton consumption." Meanwhile Robert F. Sellar, president of Boston's Animal Rescue League, threatened to send agents to arrest goldfish swallowers if college authorities did not stop it. Said he: "This is not a subject for levity. I hesitate to bring such a matter to court, but we won't sidestep the issue. There have been too many complaints...
Most moving: The words of Florence Nightingale at 70, shrill, wavering, full of emotion: "When I am no longer even a memory-just a name-I hope my voice brings to history the great work of my life. God bless my dear old comrades of Balaclava and bring them safe to shore...
...balancing the Budget will bring about recovery, then Congress can instantly do so by reducing expenditures to the level of receipts. . . . Such items as work-relief projects, CCC camps, roads and public works of all kinds, veterans' benefits, all farm benefit payments and national defense, some or all of these would have to be drastically curtailed...
...principal effect in Britain of Herr Hitler's latest aggressions has been to bring the ticklish issue of conscription to the fore. Whereas formerly few politicians would touch the subject with a ten-foot pole, last week it was discussed openly. Another Hitler coup and the last conscription-free nation (except Liechtenstein and Monaco) in Europe may go in for compulsory universal military training...
...second trip around the course. But back of the leaders, out of the crush, Workman was running easily under the crafty hand of Irish Tim Hyde, a veteran of many years of chasing, a gentleman jockey turned pro. He was following the plan the illustrious George Stevens used to bring in his record five winners, before he was tossed to ignominious death in 1871 by a cob he was riding home over a rocky byroad. Stevens used to hang back until most of the field had harried each other into the ditches and hedges, then he would ride triumphantly...