Word: send
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...announced within a week after the beginning of the coming term. Ticket applications will be sent out as soon as students return for the beginning of the next semester; they will not, however, be accepted after February 17, in order to give the committee sufficient time to send out the invitations to the ladies...
...eminent Teutons, notably Herr Ludwig and Herr Keyserling, who have been foreshadowing the future of this country in abstractions, seem obstinately determined to send it packing to its destruction. It appears that the United States is rich and materialistic as was the Roman Empire, and that post hoc, ergo propter hoc, is good and appropriate Latin. But on consideration, other parallels are evident. The tributary nations, such as Nicaragua and Mexico, are departing from fealty; missionaries are retiring in fear before savage Chinese warlords; Europeans look with greed on American wealth. Luxury is creeping in; laborers in linen collars sprawl...
...predictions include the deaths of King Edward VII and Enrico Caruso, the Windsor Hotel of Manhattan fire (her first big one), the World War, the outcome of both Tunney-Dempsey fights. Because the stars pointed to great publicity, she advised the father of Lois Delander of Joliet, Ill., to send his daughter to the Atlantic City beauty contest. Miss Delander became Miss America...
...think that when a country sends a man to this country as an Ambassador, or in any other capacity, it certainly should not send a murderer, or a rapist, or a man who would commit arson; at least it should send one who would not be guilty of any one of those three classes of crimes. When they have no regard for this country, but send that class of people here, I think that when they kill children on the street, when they take American girls to places for debauchery and debauch them and brag on it, and openly violate...
...opened by the President of Cuba, General Gerardo Machado. After him spoke the President of the United States, who made the very best of a difficult situation by championing Fraternity and omitting specific reference to Intervention. Therefore, some regretted that the U. S. Navy Department found it necessary to send a huge bombing plane soaring in non-stop flight from Miami, Florida, directly over La Habana and on to assist U. S. Marines in Nicaragua...