Word: greets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With much more savoir-faire than many a movie star, a little five-year-old stepped off a Pullman car at Belmont Park, N. Y. one day last week and patiently posed for dozens of cameramen who had come to greet him. The young visitor had just traveled 3,000 miles from San Francisco to keep an engagement with his uncle. The visitor's name was Seabiscuit, No. 1 money-winner of 1937, and he had come to run a $100,000 race, winner-take-all, with equally famed, four-year-old War Admiral, on Memorial...
...five years before. It will remain as a memorial of his love for his College in the centre of the superb edifice which will henceforth bear his name and which will link it imperishably with that of Harvard. With these thoughts in our mind we now thankfully but gravely greet the moment of the laying of the cornerstone of the Harry Elkins Widener Library...
...deepened into acute starvation. Emaciated Iranian citizens can be seen sitting around in streets and doorways, their bones almost sticking through their skins, their eyes seeming to pop out of their heads, lacking the energy even to brush away the swarms of flies covering their bodies. Scores of beggars greet incoming travelers. Still greatly flourishing is the opium poppy, which withstands drought, is immune from locust attacks. Despite the bustling, superficial prosperity of Teheran, all was not well last week in the Empire of the Shah-in-Shah...
Diminutive little Assemblyman Francis X. Coyne of Dorchester, sponsor of a bill to tax the real estate of Universities which hire communists or fascists, was at the station to greet the actress as she get off the train in orchids and gray foxes
...found the regular Viennese police, already wearing swastika brassards, augmented by roving bands of Hitler Youth and Storm Troops. A great roundup and lockup of Socialists, Communists, labor unionists and Fatherland Fronters. the only legal party under Chancellor Schuschnigg, was instantly begun, and Seyss-Inquart sped to Linz to greet his master, Hitler. Ultimatum-bringer Josef Bürckel stayed in Vienna to reorganize the Austrian Nazi Party and prepare a plebiscite for April...