Word: bring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...month. When Williford saw the chance to make $18,000 a year by renting out small showcases, known as vitrines, in the lobby, he wired Hilton for an O.K. Hilton wired back: "I don't know what a vitrine is, but if they'll bring in that much, put them in." In the Palmer House, a bookstore that was paying a rent of $250 a month was replaced by a cocktail lounge grossing $2,000 a day. Employee locker space was centralized, making space for 50 additional rooms. In Hilton's first year, the Palmer House...
Late last night Gordon revealed that the 350 campaign volunteers had managed to bring in only $19,633.03. The main trouble we're having," Gordon said, "is getting 100 percent contact. Basketball games, hockey games, the "Messiah," are all keeping people out of their rooms," he added...
...mastery of a specific style by the members of the squad. The only way a coach could ever get a squad to play the same basic type of game would be to scout hundreds of candidates, looking for similarity of style. So Coach Barnaby has sensibly resolved to bring out the individual talent in each man rather than to impose a special game upon the player. On the Barnaby team, each man plays according to his own bent...
...plot is reasonably easy to follow if you bring along a bloodhound and a pocket dictionary of Arab names, which rend the desert air and are damn hard to keep track...
Sohn, speaking before an informal graduate student group in the Peabody Room of Phillips Brooks House, also disclosed that the UWF would strive to interest state legislatures in its aims to bring about a national convention. Such a convention would amend the Constitution to make it compatible with the concepts of world government...