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Word: saws (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...June 15 saw several large operations on the part of the U. S. Treasury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Treasury Action | 6/25/1923 | See Source »

...blue color of the score up to and even including the seventh inning to sway their scorched spirits in the direction of the exits are suffering sufficiently now to make any recriminations useless. Those who remained had the faith which moves mountains, and as the sun was setting they saw the mountains move...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GREAT NINTH | 6/21/1923 | See Source »

...University managed to hold its lead until the sixth inning when the Yale batsmen saw their chance and took it. Eddy, the first man up, made a good single and advanced to second when Buell missed Mallory's fly. The two runners were advanced to second and third on de Sibour's sacrifice and Eddy came home on Kelley's hit, followed by Mallory when Cosgrove knocked out a sacrifice fly. With the score at tie, Pond drew a throw to second out of Keegan which allowed Kelley to race home for the winning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE NINE WINS FIRST GAME | 6/21/1923 | See Source »

...others committed to his charge, that they can never lose the lofty principles he has given them, instils an influence that will spread from generation to generation far beyond his sight. Much of the good in our natures has come to us mediately from men and women we never saw, of whom sometimes we have never heard; and any one may do the same for others yet unborn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SUCCESSES OFTEN BUILT ON EARLY SEEMING FAILURES | 6/19/1923 | See Source »

...some of the most fruitful careers. Many successful men have failed in the pursuit in which they finally became eminent, or in some other, before they learned how and where to apply their strength. Every school boy is familiar with the story of Bruce taking courage when he saw the spider spin her web on the seventh trial Abraham Lincoln's early life was far from promising. Twice he attempted to conduct a local store only to have the enterprise come to a hopeless end in a few months. Goodyear tried one experiment after another before he lit upon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SUCCESSES OFTEN BUILT ON EARLY SEEMING FAILURES | 6/19/1923 | See Source »

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