Word: onto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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British Fascist Leader Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley climbed onto the top of a sound truck to address a Liverpool open-air mass meeting of 8,000 people. The crowd shouted, hissed. He gestured commandingly for silence, promptly received a volley of brickbats. Gashed on the left temple and back of the head, he fell, was carted off to a hospital with brain concussion. In the riot which he left, 20 people were injured, 15 were arrested...
...preceding games the Giants had eked out one run while the New York Yankees had ground out the humiliating totals of eight, eight and five. Attendance, which had started out at the Yankee Stadium with 61,000 was down to 45,000 as the two teams trotted out onto the field for what everyone expected would be the last game of the dullest and most one-sided Series in years...
...worked until her death. When Miss Addams, an erect, brown-haired young lady of 29, first appeared with her equally lady-like friend, Ellen Gates Starr, in the big red-brick house that Lawyer Charles J. Hull had surrendered to the encroaching slums, her ribald neighbors threw garbage onto her porch, stones through her windows. In the half-century that followed Hull House was to grow over two city blocks, become one of the biggest, certainly the most famed of U. S. settlement houses. It was also to span and partially inspire the nation's great era of private...
...years she received several letters daily from a onetime editor of the Harvard Lampoon, who wrote her that she resembled a "beautiful white horse," but disappointingly "would wander off onto the Baconian theory...
Just as when a stone is cast into a calm pool and the ripples spread surely onto every farthest bit of the shore, so the death of Thomas Nelson Perkins shocks his friends at home and is felt in all distant countries touched by his work on Reparations. The public praise heaped upon his career at the bar and in industry and banking cannot hide in his friends' minds the memory of a genial counselor, just as generous in his efforts as sage in his advice, nor can Harvard in particular forget the thirty years Mr. Perkins spent as Fellow...