Word: brought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago Mme Skobline was brought to trial. Over 60 witnesses trooped to the stand and piled up evidence against her. She said, among other things, that her husband "waited for her" outside a dress shop for an hour and a half the day de Miller disappeared. Last week, although the fate of General de Miller has never been conclusively established, she was convicted of aiding in his kidnapping and sentenced to 20 years of hard labor, ten subsequent years of exile from Paris. Said La Plevitskaia, tears rolling down her cheeks: "I am alone in the world and completely...
...Chicago, Ill. and Rome, Italy two top-ranking newsmen got ready last week to leave jobs which have brought them fame aplenty and a modicum of fortune...
...city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem . . . to be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child. And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered. And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them at the inn. And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And, lo, the angel of the Lord came...
...Largest of living invertebrates are the giant squids. In the early 19th Century a sea captain brought on board his ship fragments of such a giant which showed it to have been 50 ft. long, not including the ten arms. Scars of combat with giant squids have been found on the hides of whales. Largest of known insects, extinct for 170,000,000 years, had a wingspread of 2 ft. 6 in. Largest of known arthropods was Pterygotus, 9 ft. long, which faintly resembled a lobster and roamed on the Silurian sea bottoms of 350,000,000 years...
...that diligent ichthyologist. Dr. William Beebe, when his deep-sea dredgings bring to light a perfect specimen of a rare fish. Diligent Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney, chairman of the Temporary National Economic (Monopoly) Committee, last week had a similar sensation. Out of the depths of industry he brought wriggling to the surface as tight a little group of patent holders as his monopoly investigation could desire...