Word: regain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week, when the leaders of Tammany assembled to choose a candidate to regain the city hall for them, they were a very worried group of men. Something had happened to turn topsy-turvy the best of all political worlds in which they had so long dwelt. For three years they had had no patronage either from the city or from the New Deal. Their leader, James J. Dooling, who succeeded the deposed Boss Curry, was ill as he had been for months. Worse, he had never succeeded in becoming a real boss by bringing all factions of Tammany under...
...purple on the bench sat the Hon. Sir Albert Charles Clauson, C.B.E. Before him was a case in which stockholders of Haile Selassie's defunct Bank of Ethiopia were attempting to regain possession of certain securities, admittedly held by the National Bank of Egypt in Cairo, against the Italian-appointed liquidator of the Bank of Ethiopia, one Wladimiro Liguori. Plaintiffs brought in evidence a decree signed by Emperor Haile Selassie from his exile at Bath...
...relative, a Christian Science practitioner, called to see me. I managed to hobble into the front room where she was sitting and during the conversation she asked me if I would like her to give me a treatment. Right then something told me from within that I would regain all my strength; so I answered 'Yes, go ahead.' While she was talking everything in the room began to clear. I could even see the color of her eyes, which were blue. It was as if a fog had lifted. I stood up and wanted to walk...
...Crimson got off to an early lead as Luiz sunk two, and Legg dropped another, but Yale slowly crept up and at the end of the half led by a score of 23-12. Despite all attempts to rally, the Yardling hoopsters were unable to regain the lead throughout the game...
...member of the Council who is put on probation by the College for any reason will automatically lose his membership in the Council, and will not regain his membership under any circumstances...