Word: resorted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...McAdoo. Mr. Taggart is President of the French Lick Springs Hotel Co.; the charms of the resort -its healthful climate and salubrious waters - attracted the others. Probably for like reason Ralph Pulitzer, publisher of Manhattan's most virulently Democratic newspaper, The New York World, was also at the watering place...
...With the Reds, strikes are the usual thing; with the Fascisti they are the exception and the last resort. Strikes are always costly because each strike means the ruin of a certain amount of wealth and demands many weeks for recuperation of what was lost...
That Coach Fisher will subject his squad to hard drill and rough scrimmages during the next few days to prepare them for the coming Dartmouth encounter is certain. But it is not probable that he will resort to the old fashioned system of "fight week", when all the members of the squad worked themselves into a frenzy and then proceeded to tear each other to pieces. Without doubt such an event would put new energy into the team. But coming on the eve of the Dartmouth game with a series of hard games in sight, such a strenuous experiment might...
...Causes. As is nearly always the case, the underlying causes of such events are carefully concealed from the public eye. The assigned reasons for these two retirements seem sufficiently motivated under the general terms of the official account to render superfluous any resort to hypothesis...
Referring to reports that he had visited a seaside resort: "I certainly was in Noordwyk-on-Sea with my wife, naturally with the consent of the Dutch Government. We visited Count Bentinck and my Adjutant, Ilseman. I did not play tennis, nor did I win a prize...