Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hour March 1, thus putting the second city of the land on Eastern Standard Time. Pleased were La Salle Street financiers at their synchronization with Wall Street a thousand miles away. More pleased was Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick, whose morning Tribune thus gained an additional 60 minutes to gather news and readers. Thoroughly displeased was Publisher William Franklin Knox, whose afternoon Daily News had to postpone its huge market edition one hour...
...From the income of this invested reward he still lives happily here on a few dollars a month, spends most of his time with his pet meadow lark, the rest in looking up the few friends left who remember, and in preaching on street corners whenever a crowd will gather. He asks no favors, but this genuine Chinese hero would hardly be complimented to know that his likeness had been mistaken for one of China's most questionable characters. J. D. WHITE...
Sunday morning the skiers will gather on Mt. Greylock for a run over the Thunderbolt trail in the downhill event. This run ranks with the Taft and Wildcat trails in difficulty...
...there you gather inspiration for your drool...
...diplomats emerged, sucking their Havanas, the press placards of London carried blood-red headlines. Inside the papers one could gather from small type that Japanese "pride of race" no longer submits to the "inferiority" branded upon Japan by the 5-5-3 naval ratio. Therefore Japan, like race-proud Germany, will hereafter build what war boats she pleases. If steel is to be piled onto the oceans until it is time for blood, Japan nevertheless maintains that in any such naval race everyone else will be as much to blame as Japan...