Word: furnishes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...outskirts of Washington in a place where parking is forbidden by law, I was arrested by the Virginia Highway Police, was refused permission to telephone my aged mother and some of my colleagues, was obliged to spend 15 hours in a crowded cell, was compelled to furnish a bond of $5,000. Said I, on being released: 'I am the innocent victim of a terrible mistake; I shall not rest until I receive a complete vindication...
During the banquet there will be an innovation in the field of entertainment. A radio concert will be given by Russell Coggswell, of the Bureau of Business Research, while between the courses the club orchestra will furnish the music and C. L. Varner 2G.B. will entertain with a selection of songs...
...that there were several other matters in which legal action should be taken, and mentioned that two members of Congress were accused of taking various sums of money, presumably as bribes for their influence. The House of Representatives (became agitated. A resolution was proposed directing the Attorney General to furnish the House with the names of the two Congressmen involved and the charges against them. Representative Longworth, Republican Floor Leader, exclaimed: "The discussion of this subject revolts me. ... In either case, by passing this resolution we will have done the one thing that men of honor ought to do when...
...July) plans to explore the territory between Spitzbergen, Norway, and Point Barrow, Alaska. Apart from collecting data for scientific aeronautics, Amundsen and Davison will explore 1,000,000 square miles of territory, and gather information as to the possibilities of commercial flying across the Polar regions-which may ultimately furnish the shortest route between the three continents of America, Europe and Asia. The Dornier plane has a radius of action of 1,300 miles; Spitzbergen is 500 miles from the Pole, but over 1,700 miles from Point Barrow. The explorers will, therefore, make several seven-hour trips from Norway...
...seems to railroad men particularly unfair that much of the money taken from them in the form of taxes has been spent to furnish free rights of way in the form of new roads, to such competing forms of transportation as motor trucking, "Even competing canals have been constructed at the railroads' expense...