Word: bring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...notably narrow. Normally employed on the San Francisco water front are some 1,300 clerks and checkers-key workers, because they are the ones who keep tabs on cargo, representing shippers and shipowners at the loading point. All but 2% of these vital ciphers are Bridges' men. To bring the 2% into the union, the 98% struck. Whereupon their bosses closed the port, last week rejected all offers of compromise. They hoped to preserve the principle of free hiring in one last corner of Mr. Bridges' water front...
...bring the race closer to the stands, President Vanderbilt last week contemplated shrinking Belmont's traditional racing strip to 1⅛ miles-the same size as the tracks at Saratoga, Hialeah, Washington Park and Arlington Park. Whether the proposed track will be ready for the 1940 spring meeting is problematical. The fate of the Widener Chute, also unpopular with railbirds because the horses start almost a mile from the stands and finish at an angle, is as yet unknown...
...They used to sprinkle beer from a watering can on the sidewalks outside the barroom to bring in the young. The smell tempted them inside. That's the way it should be with literature and poetry in college...
...silica dust, which had been dropped into the raw tissue last June. Purpose of the experiment is to discover whether irritation of silica grains alone produces silicosis (dread "stony" lung disease often acquired by miners of silica) or whether complicating factors, such as mild tuberculosis, are necessary to bring on the disease...
According to the history books--we were too young to know about it from personal experience--female suffrage would stamp out vice, greed and crookedness in politics, bad morals, drinking, smoking, and swearing, and would bring peace to America...