Word: bring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, the Government thought they had found the right man to bring Imperial Airways up to snuff. That man was starchy, six-foot-six Sir John Charles Walsham Reith, a dour, egg-headed, ascetic Aberdonian who since 1922 has had his puritanical thumb on the destinies of the British Broadcasting Corp. Son of a preacher, trained as a Clydeside engineer, he got his job with B.B.C. by the improbable method of answering a want ad for a general manager...
Keith Boston is showing "In Old Chicago" today and tomorrow. Friday will bring a more dubious bill: "Reckless Living" and "The Lady in the Morgue...
Light practices during the remainder of the week failed to bring the Chace stroked outfit into top form, while the Eli boat stationed at Gayle's Ferry was pacing through its trials in it foest form of the season. By week's end both eights had found their stride...
With them goes a roomful of battered furnishings which have made theirs the gayest or the most peaceful room in the whole college; a sheaf of notes--the ones from that certain course which really made them feel they knew something about something, which they couldn't quite bring themselves to throw out after the last exam, and which now represent the sole tangible total of a thousand lectures and a thousand hours in the libraries--their college education in final essence. And the name of Harvard, that which they can never lose now, graven on a sheet of parchment...
...Mediterranean will be almost doubled in width from 35 to 60 miles (see map). Even more important than a gain of square miles was actual possession of Castellon's harbor, into which munitions and food could be brought by Rightist ships to Rightist troops, at present forced to bring supplies hundreds of miles overland. Next Rightist goal will be Valencia, 40 miles to the south, for more than a year the capital of Leftist Spain, third largest city of the country. Advance down this rugged coast line will, however, present difficulties...