Word: bringing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That President Hoover would bring Efficiency and Organization to the White House no one ever doubted. First he cleaned up the presidential desk, had removed the old green student's lamp, the ornate paper weights, the jar of smelling salts...
Such an action on the part of the Scholarship Committee indicates the belief that student opinion on these matters is worth consideration. It may be that the results will bring no real benefits, but if the practice is continued it may set a precedent for future student participation in the government of the college. One certain outcome of this innovation will be that the faculty will for the first time be able to see in what way their efforts effect the members of their classes. This action of the Scholarship Committee tends to bring the governing body of the college...
...failure to bring about an agreement on naval arms with Great Britain at Geneva in 1927 may or may not be laid at Mr. Gibson's door. In Foreign Affairs, for April, John William Davis, onetime (1918-1921) Ambassador to the Court of St. James's undertook to explain this diplomatic breakdown, to minimize Anglo-American differences, to suggest a policy under which naval limitations could be accomplished. Attracting wide attention in Washington, Mr. Davis wrote...
...Manhattan, in Paris. Now on the beach they promote a bathing suit business. Seeing his daughter going away with young Pat Kelly, Cohen telegraphs the Atlantic City police please they should arrest Cohen and Kelly, so the police arrest Cohen Sr. and old Mrs. Kelly arriving there to bring back young Kelly and Cohen; and then Mrs. Cohen and Papa Kelly come to jail too and Mr. Cohen is so crazy-acting they padlock him alongside an ugly crook. It would be much funnier cut to two reels and without its terrible subtitles. Best shot: Cohen trying...
Last week, 'Chicago's Bishop Charles Palmerston Anderson and Lexington's Rector Charles Stewart Hale joined in praising him for a renunciatory act. But Dr. Abbott was content to say merely, "It will bring me into contact with all sorts of people; the rich and fashionable, the poor and mountaineers." He intends traveling through his diocese by automobile...