Word: ranging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rising wheat prices rang the speculative tocsin loudly and fiercely last week. Other commodities became buoyant. Good cheer spread to Wall Street...
Three years ago a young Italian girl went up unannounced to the Manhattan apartment of Tenor Giovanni Martinelli, rang the bell and asked for a ticket for that night's performance of La Juive. Signora Martinelli was sympathetic, asked the girl why she thought she should have one. She got the very positive answer that it was because the girl intended to sing the role herself some day. Signora Martinelli asked her to come in and sing, was so impressed that she immediately proceeded to round up backers for the girl's study abroad...
...caught rose chafers for my pets. I would always start in by giving my little frog the first bug and then give the next size two bugs and so on up. I had these frogs trained so that when I went to the pond and rang a bell I carried in my pocket they would hop out of the water and arrange themselves according to size. The small frog would always be at the left end of the line and they would be like stair-steps with No. 20 at my right. One morning I failed to find...
...rang up the U. S. Consulate at Geneva. Ruminating over the radio telephone with Consul General Prentiss Gilbert, he authorized him to attend Council sessions on the Sino-Japanese crisis, if invited. That was enough for the Master Parliamentarian...
...Shirt rally at Bad Harzburg. With him in his thundering Mercedes-Benz bounced Dr. Alfred Hugenberg, "Hearst of Germany.'' "the little man in blue" who leads a right faction of 41 Reichstag Deputies. Herr Hitler leads 107. Also represented at Bad Harzburg, where Hitler drums rumbled and Hitler songs rang through the leafy forest, was the Peasant's League of 19 Deputies. After Divine guidance had been invoked by a Lutheran pastor and a Catholic priest, the assembled factions pledged to stand together in the Reichstag as "The National Opposition...