Word: come
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that it can be easily lost. It needs more effort for its support than the less exalted places of the world. . . . Peace and prosperity are not finalities; they are only methods. It is too easy under their influence for a nation to become selfish and degenerate. This test has come to the United States...
...Customs inspectors looked his way and touched their caps from a distance. There could be no mistaking who it was-William Hanford ("Big Bill") Edwards, the 300-Ib. onetime Princeton footballer who, under President Wilson, used to be Manhattan's collector of internal revenue. Obviously, Mr. Edwards had come down to meet friends and, by adumbration of his old authority, facilitate their passage through the customs shed...
Argentina is the melting pot of South America. Article XXV of the Argentine Constitution provides: "The Federal Government shall encourage European immigration and shall not restrict, limit, or place any tax upon the entry into Argentine territory of foreigners who come with the object of cultivating the soil and engaging in local industries...
...looked up from his work there was no other living soul to be seen in court. Wild-eyed but no longer violent the Dum-Dum Murderer reversed both his pistols in his hands, turning them upon himself, and stood in this peculiar attitude until bailiffs plucked up courage to come in and arrest him and the judge crawled out from under his bench...
...third floor of the Hotel Biltmore in New York a "Meditation Chapel" was opened, for guests and employes alike. It contained benches and a small altar, on which flowers will be kept fresh every day. Over the altar was the inscription, "Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest." (Matthew...