Word: woke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next morning the Administration woke to the fact that it had a man-sized fight on its hands. Over to the Senate for anxious conferences hurried that frosty internationalist, Secretary of State Hull. Summoned to the White House on the following morning were four doubtful Senators: Ohio's Donahey, Rhode Island's Gerry, Massachusetts' Walsh, New Mexico's Cutting...
...minutes before 4 o'clock one morning last week passengers on the S.S. Havana woke up with a sharp jolt. Three hours later when they were called for breakfast they learned that hard luck had again overtaken the Ward Line. Stuck on a shoal 60 mi. east of Jupiter Light on the Florida coast was the S. S. Havana. While the passengers were eating breakfast Captain Alfred W. Peterson sent an SOS. While they were dancing the rumba in the lounge, he let down an empty lifeboat to test sea conditions. He found them rough. But the Havana...
...Edward Bellamy, a 38-year-old New England journalist, published a book called Looking Backward. More than a million copies of it were sold. It stirred the U. S. and Europe. It was the story of a 19th Century man who went to sleep and woke up in the year 2000 and was shown what the world was like then. This marvelous book described radio and television. It told of giant umbrellas to spread over whole cities to keep off rain and snow. But its chief interest was that it told how poverty had been abolished, how private industry...
...Master Leschitizky who taught Paderewski. In those days he had two hands. Year after his Viennese debut came the War. Like any loyal 25-year-old Austrian, he went off to fight. On the way to the Russian frontier his right arm was wounded. He lost consciousness, woke up to find himself in a Russian prison camp. He was shunted about behind the lines, spent six months in Siberia before his group was exchanged for Russian prisoners in Austria...
...Woke you in Heaven, Death's kinder name...