Word: bringing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President-elect Hoover selects Dr. Wilbur as Secretary of the Interior, he will bring to that Department a man of broad experience and tremendous capacity for constructive work. No one knows better than Mr. Hoover that he could not make a "yes-man" out of Dr. Wilbur, which would be the last thing Mr. Hoover would want...
Yesterday morning a witness testified that there was in the possession of the Museum here an X-ray picture of the Louvre copy of the disputed painting. Supreme Court Justice Black, desiring to hasten the conclusion of the case, urged that an air-plane be dispatched to bring the negative to New York, where, by a comparison with Mrs. Andree Lardoux Hahn's copy, it might decide which is the original...
...marine life and Professor Clark hopes to obtain important information throwing light on obscure phases of the history of Australia. The knowledge obtained on this trip he intends to incorporate with the results of his previous expedition into a unified work on Australian marine life. He expects to bring back many important additions to the University Museum...
...cast of Parisian underworldlings who talk in the manner of the English nobility-rat Dolores Costello demanding "the jewels"; at Conrad Nagel who, told that his sweetheart has married in his absence, exclaims: "Then I'm too late!"; at a sister shaking a dying boy to bring him back to life; at the Hollywood conception of a Paris sewer; at a supposedly French priest reciting the Lord's Prayer with an Irish twang. Issued by the producers responsible for the development of the Vitaphone The Redeeming Sin reverts unaccountably to the shakiest adolescence of cinema technique...
Inasmuch as the Straus purchase was for five-fourths of a seat, there still remained the question of what quarter-seats, sold separately, would bring. The bear market caused by the Federal Reserve's attack on speculative loans (see p. 47) may well lower seat prices since speculation by the general public is always on a bull market. A bear market generally means less trading for seat-holder, fewer commissions...