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Word: bring (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shot down by four more of those fine, accurate rifle bullets. One of the bullets touches off the gas storage tank upon which he is perched, and he dies, laughing like hell. He is probably laughing at all the money Warner Brothers and the cops have paid out to bring him down...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 9/27/1949 | See Source »

...story moves swiftly to a climax in which Hero & friends fail, like Boy Scouts trying to crank a tank, to bring about the first sputter of a revolution. At its best, The Iron Hoop reads like a somber farce. Otherwise it has the curious distinction of being readable and interesting without evoking the slightest sympathy for any of its characters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: No Myth | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

Today's registration, closing at 5 p.m., will bring the Annex enrollment to a total of 944 undergraduate students. The 279 members of the Class of 1953 and 30 transfer students enrolled Saturday afternoon in a special orientation week registration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 635 to Register Today at Radcliffe | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...urged the House Labor and Education Committee to end delay in reporting out the bill (Barden Bill) and called on committee chairman Representative John Lesinski (D., Mich.) to exercise all possible effort to bring congressional action to bear on the bill...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NSA Convenes, 1000 Strong | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

Apart from the legend, the official story goes that the university was founded soon after the death of young Leland, in memory of the boy who died just before he reached college age. Senator Stanford expressed the desire that the university should bring intellectual life to the West and add to the vigor of the Western experience. He wanted a college that was free from the outworn traditions of older universities, especially one that would, in his words, "qualify its students for personal success and direct usefulness in life." He felt that colleges had become too far removed from American...

Author: By Edward J. Back, | Title: Stanford Cultivates ' School Spirit' and Rallies In Drive to Become 'The Harvard of The West' | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

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