Word: send
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Kansas and South Carolina drought conditions last week were literally burning up the crops, transforming fields into veritable grain furnaces, forcing the closing of schools, resulting in depletion in hydroelectric power, and even impelling inhabitants of parched towns to send their laundry into damper regions...
...longer were the courts of the West Side Club the scene of a populous and pretty carnival. Combat had narrowed, grown bitter. Miss Wills played Miss Goss. The latter skimmed the net-cord with her strokes, whisked them to send up spirals of chalk from the baseline, won the first set 6-3. Prickly heat began to affect the vertebrae of the spectators. Was a champion going down? Miss Wills, smiling her poker smile, won a love set, ran through six of the next eight games, tucked the match in her vanity case...
...restoring the gold standard we had regulated credit with exclusive regard to industry without troubling at all about foreign exchanges, we could no doubt have kept our export trade continuously booming at a loss until one exchange crisis after another had so undermined our international credit as to send the pound in the same direction in which the old German mark has gone...
...area, realized that nothing could be done except to localize the conflagration. The usual method of putting out a blazing oil gusher by steam pressure could not be used, because the nearest boilers were several miles away. Eventually, the authorities at Bucharest, the capital, were induced to send a battery of artillery to bombard the well, with the object of closing it up. Rumanian gunners bombarded it for half a day and all they succeeded in doing was to spread the fire...
...Richards (President of the Philadelphia & Reading Coal and Iron Corporation), who had been two of the chief negotiators in: previous years, were holding back. He said that the conference so far meant nothing because of their absence and in effect threatened to break off negotiations unless the operators would send their real champions into the fray...