Word: girded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...misty, rain-driven darkness settled over Soldiers Field last night, eleven CRIMSON iron men wound up their last grueling practice session. This afternoon at 4 o'clock in some far corner of Soldiers Field, the CRIMSON will gird up its ink-stained Joins and go forth to do battle with the red-skinned, scalp-mad fury of the Daily Dartmouth...
...advocate levying sufficient taxes to balance the budget. It means nothing to the United States whether I remain in Congress or not but it means much to the United States Government that its honor, its credit, its security be maintained at par. ... I want you and the country to gird yourselves with stamina, with backbone and with courage to meet this emergency. All must make tremendous sacrifices. For the budget must be balanced either through a manufacturers' sale tax or excise taxes on commodities and industries. . . . It is very easy to say 'soak the rich...
...another marches in to take up the burden, for while much is taken much still abides. Back Bay trails off to the Vincent Club where "us girls are getting up a show." The last straggler has returned to Cambridge in a belated effort to gird up his loins. Harvard's world has changed, it has gone to work. The Mid-years have advanced upon the Yard...
Placing the 3-lb. golden circlet of sapphires, rubies and diamonds upon the Emperor's woolly head, he continued, "Gird the sword upon thy loins, yet rule in Peace! May the Lord God, supreme ruler of men, bless and glorify thy reign, and may He ever keep thee and thy consort in His bosom...