Word: sends
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...called at the White House and saw Franklin Roosevelt. Later at the Capitol he gave audience to a delegation of Senators, most of them freshmen counted on to vote for the Court Bill, who felt that unless the President would make a further compromise, they would vote to send it back to the committee. The Vice President told them what he meant to do. That evening, he took Senators Harrison, Barkley and Pittman and went back to talk to "The Boss." He even got in touch with Senator Wagner, about to write a stinging reply to Governor Lehman...
...been dispatched from San Diego to Howland Island solely as a help to the flyers, would have been able to take directional bearings on the Earhart plane if the latter could have tuned its signals to a 500-kilacycle frequency. The plane's transmitter would have been able to send such signals if it had had a trailing antenna. Miss Earhart considered all this too much bother, no trailing antenna was taken along. Finally, the Itasca's, commander would have had a better idea where to look if the plane had radioed its position at regular intervals...
...positive. When this difference of potential becomes high enough a stroke of lightning cancels it. A direct hit by lightning has never been definitely shown to be the cause of an airplane wreck, but there is little doubt that the concussion of a nearby lightning stroke might suffice to send a comparatively frail glider down out of control or in splinters...
...mountain stream), Dean Mallinson makes a heroic effort to spike the gossip. For a time he thinks he has suc- ceeded. But when the gossip starts again, the Cathedral rocks with it. To save the Cathedral's honor, not Carmichael's soul, frightened Cathedral officials decide to send the Canon to another church on the pretext that his health...
Some 2,000 youths from the U. S. are fighting for the Leftists in groups such as the so-called "Abraham Lincoln" and "George Washington" battalions. Last week they were calling upon U. S. sympathizers to send them necessities and comforts. From Manhattan sailed a 35-ton "by request" shipment, containing such eagerly demanded items as cigarets, chocolate bars, razor blades, soap, bottled fruit juices...