Word: bringing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bring up the subject she can easily deny (and properly) having seen the pornographic exhibit and put the onus on me, and my efforts at explaining that this was not the usual sort of picture for you to print, or me to look at, will be increasingly difficult if she claims not to have noticed...
...Great Britain. That country is already part of an empire which has many of the elements of confederation--a common official language, a common system of laws for people of European derivation, a coordination of large and small units. If Great Britain joins a European United States, will that bring into the system the Europeanized communities of Canada and Australia and South Africa and the other far-flung colonies dominated by Great Britain? On a basis of equal representation of population groups. Great Britain and her dependencies would contribute to the world federation something like one-fourth of the population...
...that the football team has left for its one game away from Cambridge it seems appropriate to bring before the eyes of the public the admirable arrangements made by at least one telegraph company for vicarious cheering. Experts of the sort who made "don't write, telegraph" famous have brought forward their contribution to the overemphasis problem in the form of ten suggested pep messages to be delivered to the boys a few minutes before the game. At present writing no statistics are available as to the relative number of telegrams delivered to winning and to losing teams during...
...hope it will mean more contact between the various kinds of undergraduates, and a greater appreciation among them of intellectual ability and of intellectual achievement. No one can suppose that it will bring a leveling of students to a uniformity in interests outlook, breeding, the conventional standards of society. But it must lead to a broadening of association and acquaintance, and we may hope it will give the last blow--if indeed one is needed--to the silly notion that "C" is the gentleman's grade...
...Rogers prefers the active man, the man in the vanguard, who drops shibboleths for living principles: the one who in other words, if not better, is at least different. Liberalism, being essentially a sort of seeking the golden megs, is not calculated to inspire a young man sufficiently to bring out in him that highest of all qualities which Professor Rogers' insight has discovered and his eloquence has set forth...