Word: tightens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...afternoon was Friday for the Big Green, and maybe that wily Fishman wasn't busy delivering the goods. Dartmouth has Morton this year than last, and they may be Trusting in a passing attack to outwit the Junior Dean, but Casey told me last Saturday night that he would tighten up on air raids, and I hope that all will be Wells with the Harvard team...
...Passed a bill by North Dakota's Frazier to tighten Prohibition enforcement on Indian reservations; sent it to the House...
...tighten his belt...
...errors, the game resembled a sandlot final rather than a world championship; only the presence of the President of the U. S. through the whole nine innings and the crowded stands built on the roofs of houses beyond the right field wall contributed color. Only once did the game tighten into drama?the Cardinal's half of the seventh?but the Athletics stopped that rally. Score: Philadelphia 5, St. Louis...
President & Mrs. Hoover and Herbert Hoover Jr. weekended at the Rapidan camp, for the first time this year taking along no guests, no work. ¶ To reduce the influx of alien labor and thereby relieve U. S. unemployment, the President ordered the State Department to tighten up its enforcement of the "public charge" provision of the Immigration Law. Under this provision U. S. consuls will be instructed to exercise their discretionary power to refuse passport visas to all non-preference quota immigration applicants unless each can convincingly refute the presumption that upon arrival in the U. S. he will join...