Word: runge
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nursery was of careful, home-made construction, and a New York City toxicologist, examining ransom money as it came in, found emery dust and glycerine esters. Hence the man was likely to be a carpenter or machinist who ground his own tools. Judging from the ladder's broken rung, the man's weight was put at somewhere near 160 lb. From vague descriptions given by a taxi-driver who had taken the third ransom note to "Jafsie" Condon and from Condon's own recollections of the intermediary "Johns," a Washington cartoonist was able to make...
...charged with the health & happiness of some 2,000,000 souls, began to dicker with huge Electric Bond & Share, top-rung owner of Tennessee Public Service. T. V. A. wanted to buy certain properties of the private utility, then sell them on easy terms to Knoxville and neighboring communities...
...mighty unworthy parent who is unable to offset Phariseeism at home) if I could make sure of securing for my children the influence of teachers to whom their job is not just a pay envelope and a step higher on the ladder of respectability than the rung to which they were accustomed. But we, like so many others, simply haven't the money . . . even if we had the inclination to send our little ones away from home to be educated by teachers of our own choosing. How fortunate for all concerned if our State Board of Education would accept...
...decide that Derwent's alibi is too perfect; ergo, he is the guilty man. After a great deal of twiddle-twaddle about the part played in the crime by time Derwent clears himself, and, the plot being almost tragically clear to the spectators by now, the curtain is rung down...
...directors of our destiny-our fathers of Government and our Father in Heaven. From this security we may know that as the Sentinel of passing days, aye of passing days, passing his rounds upon the watch tower of civilization, conning the ominous signs of the times, shall hear rung out the challenge: 'Watchman. what of the night?' Angels grant that, true to the lessons of Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln, our friendship with all nations and alliances with none, we may respond 'Thank God, all is well...