Word: putting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sneering & Snickering." Besides, books were being put on trial, protested the lawyers. Judge Medina spiked that. On trial, he said, were "these individual defendants that you see here, who once in a while seem to enjoy these proceedings so much...
...Dinner. The theft was easily reconstructed. Crowe had stayed late at the bank on Friday the week before, had opened the vault and taken out $193,660 in small bills, five U.S. $100,000 Treasury bonds, and $190,000 in bonds of smaller denominations. He put his loot in a brown handbag, took the ferry to Staten Island, calmly tossed his treasure into the family Buick, and went off to meet Mrs. Crowe for dinner at a Staten Island country club...
...facts & figures and sense-data." Maritain found the basis for a moral order in a process of reason about the essences of God, man and things. He blamed not science itself for the 20th Century's moral crisis, but two factors bearing on the use to which men put science: 1) peoples' "mythmaking suggestibility," their "natural lust" for facile explanations; and 2) "greed and will to power, and the temptation to which the kind of omnipotence meted out by science . . . gives rise in the human race...
Then Baritone Thomas ran off a raffle (Banker L. M. Giannini's wife won a radio) that helped put $49,000 into the orchestra's treasury...
...charming book . . . When I say anything silly or absurd to Mr. Winsten ... he corrects me ... by substituting what he himself would wisely and sensibly have said." However, Shaw admits, "When Turner had to paint a view of a city, and found the church or the castle ... ill situated, he put them in their right places and gave us a landscape worth a thousand photographs...