Word: reclaim
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...court and that in the larger courts, which handle thousands of these cases, there may be several officers, to make the probation treatment close and effective. Not only will this development relieve Federal prisons from a large number of first offenders who never need to go but it will reclaim thousands of them, and eventually will save the Government far more than the salaries of these officers...
...time, the restriction was brilliantly successful. Prices soared far above 40?., reached a high in 1925 of $1.21 a pound and in that year averaged 73? U. S. rubber users, tiremakers, were in a public panic. They pressed a campaign of conservation. They began to "reclaim" used rubber. They started a world-wide search for plantations where the U. S. might produce its own supply. They commissioned Thomas Alva Edison to study how to extract rubber from such plants as milkweed. And, in 1926, tiremakers formed the Rubber Pool to buy a great supply at between...
...Moose Mountain iron range in Canada. Brawny, brainy, he made a good public servant-Georgia's claim to Chase Salmon Osborn is that he usually winters near Albany, Ga., where his estate is known as " 'Possum Poke on 'Possum Lane." Had any Michigan newspaper desired to reclaim "one of the most prolific writers in this country" as a Michigander, it would only have had to point to Dr. Osborn's permanent home at Sault Ste. Marie. But then, had argument arisen, still a third state could have stepped in and carried off the prize. Michigan...
...happened that Firestone Plantations, Ltd. of Akron (Ohio), London and Singapore was confirmed by the Liberian Congress last week, in its 99-year lease on 1,000,000 acres of land suitable for rubber production and 200,000 acres planted 16 years ago and now in full production. To reclaim the 1,000,000 acres of present Firestone jungle, 350,000 Liberians will be needed at a cost of $100,000,000. The tracts if fully developed should produce 400,000,000 pounds of rubber annually? about half the rubber consumed this year...
...tossed this way and that, sometimes too negligible to be tones at all. That evening she was no prima donna. She was Katiusha, loveliest of peasant girls, wrongly accused of the murder of a drunken patron; Katiusha, proud of her sordid conquests, begging money of the man who would reclaim her soul and then-a new Katiusha, who, renouncing him with three symbolic kisses of the Russian Easter, shouldered a pack to follow a fellow convict into Siberia. Tristan and Isolde, laid away for several seasons now, was brought out for the debut of Elsa Alsen, a very worthy Isolde...