Word: bring
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...minutes. He proposed legislation "to protect the coast from erosion by the sea ... to encourage the development of the whitefish industry and to provide for safer milk ... to improve water supplies to Scotland . . ." And finally he came to the explosive paragraph: "A measure will be laid before you to bring under public ownership those companies extensively engaged in the production of iron ore, or of pig iron or steel or in the shaping of steel by a rolling process...
...church, a lady inquired what the matter was. The boys explained: they were fraternity pledges at Bucknell University who had been dumped out the night before on a lonely road 200 miles from Princeton, with orders to thumb their way to "that place where Einstein thinks" and bring back his signature...
...makers of stainless steel-roughly the U.S. steel industry- had consented to a decree in an antitrust suit that banned them from fixing prices and "employing other restraints of trade." The steelmen said that, as they had already conformed with most of the provisions, they saw no reason to bring the case to trial...
...from the menaced young woman he is trying to save. And sure enough, a flower gets stepped on, wind smacks the windows open, a lion breaks loose from a zoo, the grandfather clock bongs 11-and so forth. These busy goings-on are not really very creepy "unless you bring along an overwhelming will to believe. Stretch by stretch the story seems over-extended and overelaborate. But it is well played-especially by Robinson; and it is as painstakingly and sleekly produced as if it were worth all the trouble. It is as good a way of passing an evening...
...gradual change has come over he roster of students living at College and in the Houses. Whether it was the House Plan itself, the Great Depression, or something else that inspired it, the policy of the Administration for the last decade or so has been to bring a cross section of the American Population into the unit of the wealthy and well-born that once was Harvard. The theory has been that education involves more than factual and theoretical knowledge; it includes an understanding of different people from different places and different income brackets, their backgrounds and their beliefs. However...