Word: went
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge went to Northampton, Mass., to visit her mother, Mrs. Goodhue, sicker than ever in Dickinson Hospital...
Twenty-one guns were fired again by the harbor forts. The Hoovers went out to where the U. S. S. Utah lay in waiting. The harbor was not smooth. U. S. newsgatherers following by launch were thoroughly seasick. The Utah sailed for Rio de Janeiro with the Hoovers installed in admiral's quarters, the same quarters that General Pershing occupied when the Utah brought his mission home from Peru's centenary celebration...
...Adopted the Senate's changes in the Boulder Dam bill. The bill went to the President...
...Debated and passed a $111,889,000 supply bill for the Departments of State, Justice, Commerce, Labor. The total appropriation was some $100,000 over Budget Bureau recommendations. President-Elect Hoover's oldtime Department of Commerce benefited most. The measure went to the Senate...
...custom of singing carols had a definite Christian origin. Early Franciscan friars, strolling through Italy, put the tale of the birth of the Babe into homely ballad form, the better to win simple hearts. Over the Alps they went, throughout the World, singing of the sweet mystery of Bethlehem. Their songs lingered behind them. The Spanish peasant added episodes out of his dark Moorish imagination. In one group of Spanish carols the three wise men become gypsies, who read the palms and tell the fortunes of Jesus, Mary, Joseph. In Germany an ancient custom still endures, in some old-world...