Word: sented
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lowlands the Missouri, streaming from the Rocky Mountain watersheds across Montana and draining North Dakota's Little Missouri, Knife and Heart rivers, had spread from its 500-ft. channel over a 6-mi. runway. The cities were in danger. Officials telegraphed President Hoover, pleading that Army bombers be sent to break the ice jam by dropping explosives...
Once they worked for a boss who paid them $8 weekly. Now they are their own syndicated bosses, weekly earn an average of $30. Last week, the city of New York, as it does every two years, auctioned the bootblacking concession. The syndicated polishers sent their banker, one Philip Bernardini, to bid. Banker Bernardini bid $60,300 for the two years, undoubtedly won the award...
Risking everything to capture the city before relief arrived, "Sacristan" Iturbe sent an infantry charge along the beach to force the harbor fortifications. Again the rebels were beaten back by machine gun fire...
...movement began with a questionnaire which was sent to 3,000 social eligibles, male and female, mostly of the debutante and young-bond-salesman age. Some of the questions were...
...check to Mr. Hammarstrom. Mr. Kent promptly returned the $500. Said he: "I cannot see that Mr. Hammarstrom is entitled to any recognition whatsoever." Thereupon Mr. Marcus announced that the entire $1,000 was really the property of Marcus & Co. and that Mr. Kent had been sent his $500 "purely as a courtesy." Both checks were returned to Harvard with instructions to make out a single $1,000 check and send it to Marcus...