Word: putting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time when Senators were itching to shut up and go home, the talkdown worked. At week's end, by a vote of 36 to 30, the Senate sent the bill back to the Judiciary Committee. Nineteen Republicans joined 17 Democrats (mostly from the South) to put off the bill until next year...
...since Olds had the undying opposition of the power lobby, the President was able to make a fine grandstand play against "the special interests." No one knew better than Harry Truman that an abrupt order to vote for Olds as a matter of party loyalty was no way to put Olds over. It only stimulated the opposition...
Only two members of last year's varsity showed up to represent the Crimson, and since training is not required of Harvard crews in the fall, they put on a lethargic show. After the first 200 yards they settled to an easy beat of 26, and rapidly faded from contention...
Eight pieces of fire equipment roared up to Kuppersmith's Florist Shop on Brattle Street last night to put out a fire which started in the fuse box. As the crowd of approximately 300 applauded politely the firemen put out the conflagration within ten minutes...
When Dartmouth played its first football game with the Cantabs on November 9, 1882, it spent the entire game inside its own 25 yard line while Harvard put across four goals and nineteen touchdowns. The next day the Boston Globe commented that 'Dartmouth might possibly be able to cope with the Boston Latin School...