Word: fetches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...miles away. The Bishop, Miss Shedden and the rest of the crew waited that long day, marooned. Then came a Turk's Island sailing sloop which Missionary Knowles had encountered. But not until a week after that did Nassau get the news, send out a launch to fetch home its boating Bishop...
...knew how hard it was even to persuade my husband he needed a new coat, you wouldn't expect me to fetch him here. I wish you had my worries...
Egyptian interest in the Canadian situation focused last week upon a few bushels of wheat recently harvested at Robson, British Columbia, by Farmer Charles A. Bony. "Not that it's the best wheat!" said he, "It's soft and won't fetch much of a price. But there's no other wheat hereabouts that sprouted from grain sealed up 3,000 years ago in the coffin of Tutankhamen...
...middle-aged woman answered the correspondent's knock, went to fetch Mme Ekaterina Dzhugashvili. Lenin called her son "Stalin" ("Steel") for short, and the name has stuck, but the Man of Steel's proper name is Josef Vissarionovitch Dzhugashvili...
...When a small shipment (16,000 rounds) of Mauser cartridges consigned to him as "Glassware" was seized by the police of Linz last year, Prince von Starhemberg blustered: "I am only sorry that I did not personally fetch this shipment of ammunition as I am accustomed...