Word: mite
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mortgage on the 75th anniversary of the founding of the First Congregational Church is his greatest high-pressure campaign to date. Practically everything was done to church members to make the money roll out of their pockets except stand them on their heads. There were pledges, mite boxes (for children's pennies) which yielded as much as $100 a week. Special publicity promised church members who pledged even the smallest amount that their names and their children's names would be printed on a vast parchment scroll to be permanently displayed in a glassed niche...
...Bums Sleep. Bathhouse John died in 1938. The Hink's wife is dead, too, and he is now a lonely man. At 84, he is a mite deaf, but clear of eye and head...
...gnats, wasps, mosquitoes, and flies once again wage their mite-y spring offensive, penetrating deep into students' rooms, the retreating inmates are raising the perennial cry of "Why don't they give us some screens...
...first get of famed Seabiscuit, biggest money winner in turf history, they will make their racing debuts some time during the Santa Anita season (Dec. 31 to March 14), will try to prove they are of the same dough. Their names: Sea Covey, Sea Patrol, Sea Skipper, Sea Mite, Sea Frolic, Sea Belle...
...salutation was a mite too bland. The letter itself reminded North Carolina's hot-tempered, 77-year-old Representative Robert Lee ("Muley") Doughton, Chairman of the Ways & Means Committee, of a kick in the pants. For three months he had sweated over the biggest tax bill of all time, conferring with Treasury officials, arguing behind locked doors with fainthearted committeemen. For a week he had fought hard to get the bill through the House intact. Now, on the eve of passage, came the President's letter...