Word: bring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...carefully phrased to conceal the Dewey-men's concern. Said Dewey: "The time has come for a frank and blunt statement of the complex and serious problems confronting our nation and the world. . . . The national Administration has failed in its duty of frank discussion. I propose to bring before the American people the facts as I see them and the solutions I believe necessary...
Today a trend is under way in the opposite direction. Initiated largely by the Benedictines, the so-called "Liturgical Movement" in a few Christian churches is attempting to return again to the usage of the early centuries, to bring the laity still more intimately into the performance of the Holy Communion. The effects of this movement are hardly beginning to be felt. But many see a new awakening of the Spirit in this turning toward a time when Christianity was a single community of the daring-when there were no "Protestants," "Romans" or "Orthodox," but only Christians...
...guests had been invited up to Ithaca. But everything had to be postponed: the birthday boy was nowhere around. Liberty Hyde Bailey, when last heard from, was somewhere in the West Indies, wandering through jungles in search of rare plants and palms. And not even his goth birthday would bring him back from such an expedition...
...doing "what I like best"-puttering in his greenhouse ("It is an oasis in one's life. . . . One has dominion"), cultivating his palms (he has the best collection in the world). He has traveled all over the globe-by plane, train, boat, canoe, mule, and on foot-to bring back specimens...
...Frederick A. Cook, who claimed to be the first man to have reached the North Pole, threatened to bring a libel action (Author Mirsky had glacially described his account of his polar trip as "exciting and well-written, but . . . mainly fiction")*.-Now-revised, mapped, brought up to date-this magnificent history is again available to the public...