Word: scour
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...basic books of the course, a French text of Rabelais, could not be imported into this country according to a recent interpretation of the law by the customs authorities. To gather sufficient volumes for the students enrolled in this course, the Harvard Co-operative Society was forced to scour book marts of the country for copies that had already been imported...
...Combination red soap and steel wool in a green box, used by housewives to scour stubborn pots & pans) Sales, 5 mos. ending...
...attack the Democratic nominee for president of the Anti-Smith forces and by those who were religiously intolerant. There arc those in the South who regard religious liberty as the peculiar privilege of their own kind. There are also women in Texas who offered prizes to those who would "scour" the country and secure the most votes for Hoover. (Was it the women who were to purify politics?). . . . Jo MILLER GRAVES...
...team to international play, a much-needed opportunity to work in W. Averell Harriman at No. 1, and to settle the contest for the No. 4 position? Every poloist loves and reveres the name of Devereaux Milburn, most famed No. 4 of all time. Meadowbrook fans had to scour their memories to recall an international match when Hero Milburn did not play Back for the U. S four. But this year, he cannot play, must be content to watch from the sidelines, lamenting the hunting accident which lamed him last spring. And for his place, 37-year-old J. Cheever...
...Nominee Curtis. Earlier in the month Editor White had sketched the Smith record in an editorial and Nominee Smith had answered sketchily. He had accused Editor White of giving currency to inaccuracies broadcast by a New York clergyman-propagandist (TIME, July 23). Editor White had engaged two investigators to scour the New York Assembly's Journal. Last week, armed with a mass of documents including photostats, he spoke forth again. He said: "Governor Smith has been a busy man, a fine, useful American citizen since he left the New York Assembly [in 1915]. But, in his many activities...