Word: mustering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When, last fall, the Botanical Gardens withered in a state of financial delinquency, a problem arose which apparently called for all the rare tact and ingenuity which the combined forces of sundry garden clubs and a Harvard administration could muster to the foreground. The situation was attacked will such a display of apprehension and diffuse polemics that it assumed all the seriousness of a three act mystery play to undergraduates uninitiated in the science and verbiage of horticulture...
Stockholders and steelmen knew this was no remote, hypothetical situation, but that Cyrus Eaton's Republic Steel is angling for Gulf, can probably muster at least 40% of the voting power. Meanwhile, U. S. Steel, foreseeing new competition in this territory, last fortnight announced it will spend "millions" on its subsidiary, Tennessee Coal, Iron...
...hockey club could have, and anyone who saw them turn back the Montreal Maroons last Saturday evening to hang up a new record for consecutive victories came away from the Montreal Forum convinced that it will be a long time before any other club will be able to muster up power enough to turn them back. The Maroons are a heavy, bruising outfit, but good as they were they were no match for the Boston team when the precious goals were needed. It is in the matter of teamwork that the Bruins particularly excel. When a streaking forward gets...