Word: bring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...help had not resolved Holland's overseas mercantile problem-how to restore trade with Indonesia and her once lucrative transoceanic shipping in general. But ECA's pressure had helped bring about one solid achievement long dreamed by the Dutch: economic union with their Benelux neighbors, the Belgians and Lux-embourgers...
...Jacob Lawrence, a Negro expressionist, wrote that the most important thing about art to him was not expression at all, but observation. "My long-term approach is an effort to develop the insight and personal philosophy I bring to my observation. I tried to do this in The Wedding...
Other distillers stood firm, saying they planned no cuts. But they may soon have to change their tune. Some 68 million gallons of four-year-old whisky, made in the first distilling months after V-E day, will be ready for the market between July and December. This will bring the supply of aged whisky, now short, into line with current demand...
...could raise a 75-ft. ceiling to 400 ft., permitting landings when the airport would otherwise be closed in. When the port has been fogbound, airliners have had to land 100 miles away at Palmdale, at an extra cost of $8 to $10 a passenger. Since Fido will bring airliners in for as little as $1.50 a passenger, the five airlines underwriting nearly half its $842,000 cost figure that it will soon pay for itself...
...have been made this way, time & again. "Think of . . . the boy Dickens [working] in the blacking warehouse, and his undying resentment of his mother's wanting him to stay there. Think of Trollope, at an upper-class school with holes in his trousers, because his father could not bring himself to dispense with a manservant. Ugh! Be a tramp or be a millionaire; it matters little which: what does matter is being a poor relation of the rich; and that is the very devil...