Word: put
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...execution" was to take place forthwith, and so Billy's neck was forcibly put on the block; whereupon he was struck with a wet cord that had been chilled, very conveniently, to more or less the temperature of a steel blade. Billy's simpleminded brain reacted most realistically to this mock execution, and it telegraphed the rest of his body that he was "done...
...building faster airplanes, bigger battleships and a bigger army, lets build bigger and better lakes to fish in, and stock 'em with fish with bigger and better appetites. However, before we do all this, I think we should team up with England, France, Belgium and China and put Europe back on a status quo basis of about...
Franklin Roosevelt lays great store by what he calls "the spirit of Warm Springs." This spirit is a very tangible, carefully cultivated attitude of cheerfulness, confidence, determination. It is designed to fortify the resort's paralysis patients, put heart into their fight for recovery. When he goes to Warm Springs, Franklin Roosevelt steeps himself in this spirit quite as purposefully as he exercises in its waters. Easter afternoon, when he went to the train which was to take him back to Washington after a ten-day rest, his smile and bearing clearly reflected the spirit of Warm Springs...
Extension was the treatment the Senators were least likely to give to a law which requires the President of the U. S. to embargo war goods to combatants between whom he discerns a "state of war," and to put all other exports to them on a cash & carry basis...
High Jump--Won by C. H. Wood '41, 6 ft. (5 ft., 6 in.); Broad Jump--Won by N. J. Young '42, 21 ft., 8 1-4 in. (19 ft., 2 1-4 in.); Polo Vault--Won by S. Brooks '42, 14 ft. (11 ft., 6 in.); Shot Put--won by G. A. Downing '40, 48 ft., 6 1-2 in.; Javelin--Won by H. Kent '39, 169 ft., 4 in. (144 ft., 4 in.); Discus--Won by G. A. Downing '40, 127 ft., 7 in.; Hammer--Won by T. T. White...