Word: sending
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best they could think of was to send word around the wards and back rooms: don't give up hope. In spite of Harry Truman's firm stand against decontrol, they hoped there would be some meat to nourish voters for that journey to the polls...
...swept on through the darkness, San Antonio waited nervously for something worse. Would the Olmos Dam hold? It had been built after the disastrous flash flood of 1921, had been a subject of controversy ever since. One group of engineers had predicted that it would break under severe pressure, send a wall of water roaring through the city. [Now, as a lake backed up behind the 1 ,900-ft. concrete barrier, an inevitable rumor spread: "The darn is going to break...
Back in Shakopee, Moriarty has a mother who is as energetic as he is. He wrote her asking if she could get a few friends to send gift parcels for the boys at Christmas. Mrs. Moriarty put the story in Shakopee's local paper. The agencies picked it up, and from all over the U.S. Moriarty got 35,000 letters asking for the boys' addresses. Said he, "I never saw anything like...
...Indoor Athletic Building to hear the speeches and run through five new fight cheers which five of the band's trumpeters have been practicing all week. The veteran cheerers, the interested spectators, and the confused freshmen, all were there to give the big Crimson squad a rousing send...
...clock this afternoon Coach Jaakko Mikkola will send the first wave of his record-sized 107-man cross country squad on the 3.7 mile University Intramural Handicap. Starting from behind the Newell Boat House, the event will serve as a time trial for every man, and the times of the first ten will be an indication of the calibre of this year's Varsity...