Word: pour
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Great was the rejoicing in the wake of this forecast by the cherry trees' public custodian. Last summer the heavens had opened to pour upon Potomac Park a deluge of almost Biblical proportions. For days the cherry tree roots had stood in rotting slime. Their leaves browned, fell off. They were, apparently, dead. But now they had come alive again and were ready to draw multitudes of spring visitors to Washington to gaze in gabbling ecstasy. Great, among Washington's hotelmen and shopkeepers, was the name of Grant who fostered this renaissance...
...much loved as delighted in children, and so the long terraces of the Tuilleries gardens were reserved pour les enfants des soldats de La Grande Armee. Alongside the children on other terraces were les blesses, crippled, blinded perhaps, but every man in shining uniform, rigid and silent as they gave the Last Salute, many with streaming eyes...
...Without batting either of his eyes, Mr. Sun coolly asked legislative approval for a 50-year program of public works to cost the breath-taking sum of 12 billion 500 million dollars. Bold and ten times bold, this scheme would commit the fledgling, two-year-old Nationalist Government to pour out every year, for public works alone, a treasure half as large as the stupendous annual tribute which the Great Powers hope to wring from Germany in Reparations. China would spend $250,000,000 each year, while Germany must pay between $400,000,000 and $600,000,000 annually, depending...
...glass State seals in the Senate skylights had been broken. Awestruck, they found that the missle had missed all the State seals, missed also the figures of Peace, Industry, Valor, etc., and had singled out for destruction the great Horn of Plenty from which gifts of flowers and fruits pour down upon the U.S. people's most august representatives...
...fundamental assumption of Mr. Brock's article, of all its brethren which have crowded the public prints lately and indeed of the House Plan itself, is that what is wrong with Harvard College can be made right by the creation of new moulds into which to pour the malleable masses that now choke the educational machinery in Cambridge. Judging by undergraduate opposition to the House Plan, one must conclude that Harvard itself notices very little the clogging of its system. It is this refusal to consider as a weakness what others see as the major fault to be corrected that...