Word: inserted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interior. The refugees have become a danger to the general health of adjacent communities. Families are still separated and rare is the man or woman who is not ceaselessly looking for kin. On one day a local French newspaper published gratis ten columns of refugee "personals." Typical insert: "José Manuel Garcia begs for news of his wife Lena, last heard of on 1st February at Puigcerdá." Marseille gangsters, always in need of women for the white-slave trade which supplies Africa and South American countries with prostitutes, were reported circulating in the camps looking for new personnel...
...last week looking well contented. The great debate on the Relief bill was under way and he thought he knew how the voting would go. It would be close, but Alben Barkley repeatedly assured the White House that he had lined up five more votes than necessary to insert Senator McKellar's amendment to raise the total of $725,000,000 appropriated by the bill (the House figure) to $875,000,000, the figure desired by the Administration. So sure of himself was Alben Barkley that he had willingly agreed to divide the debating time evenly between proponents...
Smarting from the 29 to 24 setback received at the hands of M.I.T. in Hangar Gym, the Feslermen will be out to gain a victory over the strong Huskie quintet. In an effort to insert more height into the lineup, Sam White will get the starting assignment at guard as Captain Lupe Lupien's running mate. Fred Beckel will be moved up to forward, a position which he played last year...
During the half we are led to believe there was a fight talk. Harlow decided to insert burly bucker Ben Smith to improve on the none too deceiving spinning fakes of Joe Gardella. Still Smith was not able to work any wonders for a little while, for Princeton had obviously scouted Harvard's spinners down to a fine point...
...superman made the airplane," observed Professor Joad, "but the ape has got hold of it. To step on foot throttles, insert coins into metal slots, scan headlines, crowd through clicking turnstiles, turn on the radio, hurl ourselves over the surface of the earth in a mechanism propelled by petrol-these constitute the modern notion of entertainment...