Word: sure
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...train stopped, and the Boy Scouts rushed forward to greet the man who stepped with sure tread from the car. Cameras clicked jerkily; the young shouted their welcome; reporters, notebook in hand, mused on childish love of deifying. The Bremen flyers were hailed with more ceremony, but with no more sincerity than was this man. If he received no key to the city; if no regal automobile waited him; if most of the Tremont Street crowds went their way unwitting, still the adulation and joy of greeting were present, and only the means for expressing them rightly won lacking...
Father Gianfranchesci, chaplain of the expedition, telling his beads in Kings Bay, pinched himself to make sure he was alive. Chosen to drop the cross upon the Pole, he had his mystic misgivings. So when Signora Nobile wired her Polar Pilgrim to drop the cross with his own hands for luck, the good Father gladly remained behind...
...with such sure tactics that Miss Spence made her school the Manhattan model for discipline and scholarship as well as for what was then referred to as gentility. Her gayety, her wisdom, and her lofty character came to be reflected in the school she ran so long. When she died in 1923, Miss Charlotte S. Baker became the principal, aided by two assistants, Miss Helen Clarkson Miller and Miss Grace A. McElroy. Miss Miller made an announcement last week which surprised Spence girls more than any Spence girls have ever been surprised since the night of that banquet, long...
...quit. Red Grange, barker of a side show which Pyle set up in a tent wherever he stopped failed to make money. Pyle gave the runners $1.50 a day for food, put cots for them in empty stores. In Chicago there was no cash on hand. When it seemed sure that everything was over, one F. F. Gunn, Chicago sportsman, paid off the debts, took charge of the race. His son Harry was in the race and Gunn is said to have bet $75,000 that Harry would finish. He hired a sleeping bus and two trainers for Harry...
...solicit expiring accounts. Establish your banking relationship and your credit while conditions are favorable. No doctor is anxious to be called in when the patient is known to be dying. Neither can you expect any bank to want your account when you are in business trouble. . . . Be sure to establish a profitable connection when you are prosperous and in a position to choose...