Word: save
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wherewith, he fell upon his children land demolished all save a few, who fled back into the sea, content with their portion of it forevermore...
...Government also promised to buy a "substantial number" of cattle in drought areas, to ask railroads to reduce freight charges on cattle going out and feed coming into desolated states. Finally soft drizzles began throughout the Midwest, enough to lay the dust. But soaking rains were needed to save what was left of the crops and soaking rains had not yet come...
...freedom in the proposed NRA communications code. Section 4 of the code forbids rate discrimination in favor of any class of user. Did that threaten the traditional telegraph press rate (one-third of the full day rate, one-sixth of the full night rate) by which U. S. newspapers save $10,000,000 a year? The NEA feared it did, lodged a protest with General Johnson, asked that Section 4 be amended to make press rates sacred. Missing from the NEA banquet was the man whom the delegates had come to honor: Walter Williams, aging president of Missouri University, founder...
...adroit ducking. This talent he uses to good effect one evening when tipsy Speed, world's middleweight champion, and his trainer simultaneously swing on him, miss and knock each other out. Misinformed, newspaper headlines next day scream that unknown Burleigh 'Sullivan has thrashed the champion. To save Speed's reputation, Burleigh is persuaded by Speed's manager to abandon his beloved milk route, become a fighter himself so that Speed may eventually demolish him in public and vindicate his prowess...
...Imperial Majesty had fied without observing the formality of presenting his sword. In Trafalgar Square the crowd surged like a rising tide and sang God Save the King. Through the thin light of a cathedral he Archbishop rendered up his solmen thanks and hoped that the day of the plowshare had returned forever. Peace on earth had come at last and democracy ruled in a world made safe...