Word: get
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that accent becomes a cracking sputter. Murray & Hillman burred and sputtered to good effect. Several of Martin's dozen boardmen began to waver. One night Messrs. Murray & Hillman added up their gains, convinced Homer Martin that he might as well convene his board and get it over. He capitulated...
...Mayor Rossi's police insisted on leading the parade. The two Italo-Americans joshed each other about their 1939 world's fairs. Mayor LaGuardia said: "I always feel at home in San Francisco and now I'll feel like I am in San Francisco when I get home. . . . The teamsters have gone on strike in New York...
...Salvation Army mobilized for peace-prayer services throughout the world. In London spry, 72-year-old General Evangeline Booth led 500 of her followers to a hall on the bank of the Thames, put them through prayer-drill with martial commands, "Shut your eyes!" "Clasp your hands!" "Get down on your knees!" "Stand...
...effort to prevent another World War by reshaping the whole fabric of existing relations between the major European states was launched this week at No. 10 Downing Street, ten minutes after a black rainy midnight. The chiefs of Britain and France could not reach this momentous decision, or even get down to discussing it for eight solid hours at No. 10, without having first decided last week -for reasons of high policy-against fighting either for Czechoslovakia or with the Soviet Union, both treaty allies of France...
Transportation to New England still at virtual standstill; Freshmen, Upperclassmen unable to get past Connecticut River...