Word: bring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bryn Mawr alumna would buy tickets for a lecture on economics by the late John Maynard Keynes and would go in much the same spirit as Juliana went to hear Churchill. Just as the Bryn Mawr alumna would bring her husband, so Juliana brought Bernhard. He sat there looking as if he would rather be at a country club, but had been almost reconciled to the educational occasion...
...have to bring books to the reader," Jacobs told his staff. He began advertising the library in the papers, ran a steady list of new books. He organized his own Great Books program among doctors and teachers, lawyers and labor unions, talked factories into setting aside space for lunchtime reading. He bought two bookmobiles to roam the city five days a week, delivering books to the back districts of town. He started after the schoolkids, lecturing in classrooms, talking to teachers, enrolling the kids in a special summer reading program. Often, he found, the kids got their parents into...
Though it is costlier, the jet system penetrates as much as 300% deeper than the bullet system. Lane-Wells expects it to bring in a lot of new business. Rejuvenation prospects are so good, in fact, that the company this week begins doubling the size of its overworked machine shop near Los Angeles...
...Turku (Finland), the Finnish Bible Society happily prepared to sell ten tons of coffee, a gift from the American Bible Society. Admitted free of duty by the Finnish Government and sold on the free market, the coffee would bring about twelve times the $4,500 it had cost in the U.S.-and provide the cash to buy a new Bible House to replace the one Russia destroyed in World...
...whopping 15,169,000-bale cotton crop. On the New York Cotton Exchange, cotton futures promptly slid off $4.50 a bale. Print cloth went to 25? a yard, off 13? from its year-end high, and there were few buyers. Some thought the slump on the Cotton Exchange would bring down textile prices further. Over & over, customers told Worth Street factors: "We're waiting for lower prices...