Word: came
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...effect, the President was using a housing act to press a reform which Congress did not specify in passing the act. The loudest outcries came from builders and bankers in the South, and in New York and New Jersey. Even housing officials sympathetic to its sociological aims wondered: Would the new rule endanger the nation's healthy building boom...
...deadline came & went: 400,000 miners left their jobs and glumly dug in for a "tough Christmas." Playing his role up to the hilt, labor's great ham let almost eleven hours go by before he lumbered into the Hotel Roosevelt ballroom and grandiloquently announced his decision: the miners could work, but only three days a week. The 200 committeemen removed their cigars and said, "Amen." Then they packed their bags and went home...
These last two items led to the invasion of the hall by Carrie Nation, an axe-wielding prohibitionist. During the noon meal on November 14, 1902, she appeared in the gallery, where visitors came to "watch the animals eat", and was immediately recognized with cheers and jeers from the floor below. She shouted, "Boys! Don't eat that infernal stuff, it's poison." When she headed down the stairs with her nickel-plated hatchets, students quickly crowded around her, offering cigarettes and cigars, which she struck to the floor with indignation. When an uproarious mob had swept her into Sanders...
Myerson's team is strong through the middle weights-136, 145, 155-and weak at 165 and 175. Tech also has sophomore Chuck Bading handling the heavyweight slot Lars Soderberg held last year; Bading came in second at 175 in the New England freshman championships last year...
Twenty-two of the varsity's 86 points came on foul shots; Rockwell alone made made eight points with free throws. Shepard gas been making his charges fire 50 foul sgits a day against the Blockhouse backboards, and last night the practice paid...