Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...However, all such ephemeral and frivolous activities were merely the preparation, the ground work, for what was to come. Just as there must be a period of dry toll for every artist, so these months of drudgery were a flame which was to transform our dress into steel, and weld the metal into a tool, which, though worthless in itself, could act as an instrument through which might be transmitted that most glorious of clarion calls against intolerance, bigotry and injustice, that ringing, heartfelt appeal for liberty, that supreme endeavor of the human mind to pierce the outer encircling darkness...
Over the stockyards fence jumped the flames, began gnawing at the cheap little houses along Halsted Street. Three blocks of them had been licked up before 3,000 firemen and a shifting wind brought the conflagration under control. Toll: eight blocks of buildings; 1,200 homeless; 25 hospitalized; three missing; one dead. Verdict: worst since...
...wagon, safe from prying eyes. Ever since the War Ibn Saud has been fighting to extend his realm. By 1925 he had completed conquest of the Hejaz which contains the holy cities of Medina and Mecca, winning at the same time his greatest source of income, a toll on Mohammedan pilgrims. In 1926 the principality of Asir accepted his suzerainty and the following year Britain signed a treaty recognizing the complete independence of Ibn Saud's domains. (From 1917 to 1923 Britain paid him a total of ?542,000 in subsidies "that he be guided generally by the wishes...
...Patman measure is directed against criminals such as John "Wooden Pistol" Dillinger, "Pretty Boy" Floyd and other desperadoes who have been roaming the countryside taking a heavy toll of life...
...color and his success in negotiating a Federal Land Bank loan as the result of a personal 'phone call to the White House: Do you suppose the same system would work if applicants for Home Owners' Loan Corp. assistance were to invest the necessary amount of toll charge to the same end? Or does it only work in Mississippi? Or with the Land Bank exclusively? Or only with colored people...