Word: getting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tarpon are Florida's gamiest fish, sailfish next. Tarpon do not run until early March. Sailfish, named from the large dorsal fin, measure six or seven feet, weigh 40 to 70 pounds. Strong, fierce, canny, four out of five get off the hook...
...leaders, though, were behind the $24,000,000. Samuel Edgar Nicholson, associate New York Anti-Saloon League Superintendent, protested the position taken by the national League. To Dr. McBride he wrote: "I hope that the League will find a way to get out of this situation with as little harm as possible and then make sure that we do not get caught in such a jam again...
...Into the Committee room in the House Office Building strode, not the farmers themselves, but their hired lobbyists, suave, well-garbed, soft-spoken gentlemen, prosperous on their fees. They came to make the farmers' argument. Here and there a "dirt farmer" (as he always carefully introduced himself) would get in by mistake, but by and large the touch and feel of the soil was noticeably lacking from the agricultural witnesses who journeyed from New York and Chicago offices, from chambers of commerce, from large co-operative marketing centres...
...five years ago, at the time of negotiations preceding adoption of the first Dawes plan, and that is that I regard the questions to be settled by our committee to be business questions only. I hope they will be approached in that spirit and with a determination to get a constructive answer speedily...
...fact that these competitions are the first of their kind open to the respective classes means that successful candidates will have an excellent opportunity to get invaluable experience as editors and eventually win an important office on the paper...