Word: mustering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...results. Support of the debenture plan began to crumble. Informal Senate polls predicted its probable defeat. Its advocates schemed how they could transfer it from the farm bill to the tariff bill, explaining that its location there would be more logical. In the tariff bill they thought it would muster more House support, would be harder for the President to veto. Nebraska's Norris drafted an amendment to reduce the bounty on crops over-produced...
Liege men all to her muster...
...Continental and Eastern markets. Where they may have nestled, whence they may have come, no man can tell save only this: none is "old;" i.e., has ever been worn. As each pearl came in, experts scrutinized; demanded flawless texture, absolute sphericity, iridescent blush. A dozen, a score passed muster. The necklace was conceived. Pearl by perfect pearl, it grew until six months ago the fifty-ninth completed the only famous necklace now in existence. All the others have been broken up, have disappeared: the Comtesse de Castiglione's was sold for $84,000 in 1901; Queen Sophie of Holland...
...roster of 9295 contains 99 Smiths, 37 Browns, an equal number of Joneses, and 31 Robinsons. Fifth in the list of surnames according to numerical strength are 27 Cohens. The Murphys and Sullivans muster 20 and 16 respectively...
...pomp that Italy could muster was displayed at Marshal Diaz's state funeral, last week, but it paled before two simple scenes enacted while the dead hero yet lay in his own small room at Rome, with four tall candles at the corners of his iron...