Word: fetched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...camp (Wishery) was a woman condemned for selling six pairs of silk stockings. Her sister in San Francisco had sent her the stockings. In Vladivostok, where she was living then, a pair of silk stockings would fetch 15 roubles ($7.50) and she was poor. After her arrest, carrying her 3-year-old daughter, she had traveled, largely on foot, some 15,000 mi. to the camp...
...fort was built, homes staked out. On Aug. 18 Eleanor Dare bore a daughter who was named Virginia after the Raleigh colony. She was the first English child born in America. Nine days later (Aug. 27) her grandfather, Capt. White, sailed back to England in the third ship to fetch more men and supplies. When he returned four years later he found the Roanoke fort in ruins, the colonists all gone. Carved on a tree was the word "Croatoan," the name of a friendly Indian tribe living down the coast. But searchers were never able to find Virginia Dare...
Rich and patient, Inventor Claude was not discouraged a few months ago when heavy seas crumpled the pipe he was sinking to fetch his cold water to the surface. He set to lowering another pipe. His last week's despatch to his colleagues said that this pipe was now laid...
...Birds, Ill., Ernestine Stevenson, 21 months, daughter of Ernest Stevenson, school teacher, fell into a cold well, bobbed to the surface, clutched the iron suction pipe until her father, summoned, crawled down to fetch...
Louis C. Rosenberg of Manhattan finds pleasure wandering about Rome and Constantinople, doing stately ruins, picturesque mosques. Good Rosenbergs now fetch more than $70 each. He is represented in the British and Victoria & Albert Museums, London, besides various U. S. museums...