Word: save
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vessel was headed into a heavy norther which was tossing us around and filling the forward deck with four feet of water. We were carrying a shipment of 477 empty barrels on that deck, and they started to break loose and smash door knobs. . . . To save the ship from damage, we brought her around out of the wind so the crew could clear the deck and throw some of the barrels overboard. Irwin went on the forcastle head and watched the crew at work. But when the third officer headed the ship in the wind again, Irwin kept standing there...
...conditions over which this Nation has no control, I may find it necessary to request additional appropriations for national defense. Furthermore, the economic situation may not improve-and if it does not, I expect the approval of Congress and the public for additional appropriations if they become necessary to save thousands of American families from dire need." Thus 1939's net deficit of $950,000,000 is not an estimate of probabilities, is in fact little more than a pious hope, for the two biggest expenditure items, Defense and Relief, are left open, will probably be upped...
...supplication of his wife, but returns when he learns that he is in a position of command, and dies. Mr. McCormick is a great actor, but he is the most shadowy of the major figures in this play. Eileen Crowe plays Nora, the wife. In her efforts to save her husband she mocks the barricaded rebels, and charges them with fear to admit their fear. One feels that she abhors the struggle only because it destroys here own happiness, for in trying to drag Jack out of the fight she is oblivious of the agony of a man dying...
...election is disrupting because it comes at a time when the Union Committee is just starting to function efficiently. The Committee finds itself suddenly ejected, to be replaced by inexperienced officers with no duties to perform save those of appointing committees, which they promptly fill with their own friends...
...seems that this rule was adopted last year when a girl found a fire blazing in her waste basket. Guided by the motto "Save a minute and save a house" she tossed the burning contraption out the window. But it landed right in front of a passing professor, who computed that a good fire and a professor's life were more worth saving than a minute and a house, and thus began the rule...