Word: put
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last two months, long-suffering Orchard has been haunting the Suffolk County Courthouse in a vain search for someone who would help him retrieve his long lost $20. He was put to this expense when held last spring as a material witness to a jewelry store robbery on the Square...
...more recommendation of the Committee of Eight in regard to Faculty personnel was put into effect yesterday with the announcement by the University that John M. Russell has been appointed Assistant to the President...
...over August were September orders. Better yet, for the first time in ten years October bookings equaled September's, topped 1938 by 25%, put the ten-month average 21% over last year. By month's end unfilled orders were 51% above...
Sandburg bought this place eleven years ago, about the time he started work on The War Years, the second part of his biography of Abraham Lincoln. In the attic he put a stove, a cot, a few chairs and a lot of book shelves. Near a corner window he put his typewriter on an old box whose height suited him. He liked to tell people that if Grant and those fellows could run their war from cracker boxes, a cracker box was good enough for him. This attic and a room on the second floor called the Lincoln Room came...
...hope of Finland checking the Russians is faint," Cawley said, "but they may put up a much better fight than is expected. Whatever the outcome may be, it will be very interesting because this present struggle is the first real test of Russian military strength...