Word: save
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before the delegates were all assembled it was apparent that they would have no trouble in writing their creed. As they dropped off the train, one after another cried, as if with a common inspiration: "Save the Constitution...
This afternoon Murray will again take the mound, while Coach Fred Mitchell will be forced to save Lincoln for tomorrow's game with Princeton. Dick Walsh, Sophomore pitcher, will probably start for the Crimson...
...reduce his pension, Stephen Chase is discouraged but not disillusioned. The night his son is born, he leaves his wife to fight a fire in a reserve tank. Put in charge of a bigger office, he discharges his best friend for trifling inefficiency. Finally, he risks his life to save the company's money, when Communists capture the town...
Strong as an ox in a fight (he weighs over 200 lb.). Acosta got into many a drunken brawl. When he was fined $10 for public intoxication in 1933, his estranged wife paid that sum to save him from jail. In 1934 he was arrested again, given three months. For all his difficulties with the law, oldtime pilots still rated him top, considered him ''just a big, easygoing fellow with a genius for flying which cannot be used in these regulated days...
...mounted to the presidency and on to the board chairmanship of the second largest member of the Standard group, the name Pratt grew as potent in the oil industry's gasoline age as it had been in kerosene. Last week Mr. Pratt suddenly severed all connection save that of stockholder with the company he had served for 40 years. He declared that he was taking advantage of the company's retirement plan...