Word: bring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coach (and whom she also hugged for cameras). But she raced on with her arguments-that the theatre should be helped because it yields a 10% Federal tax on its admissions; because its people know no other work and their talents are social assets; because they bring cheer to millions, and give benefit shows to relieve the distress of others. At her conclusion Miss Bankhead broke into tears. Next day she sent the committee a vast basket of roses...
Paradoxically, while the world's granaries began to bulge, wheat-growers were threatened with ruin as prices slumped. Paradoxically, the peaceful drudgery of thousands of Europe's peasants could bring them and it nearer the verge...
...role in the great Northwest is to bring lasting peace between the Empire builders and the howling Blackfoot Indians, in token of which Big Chief Maurice Moscovitch dubs her "Golden Hawk, Little Spirit...
Declaring that only 30% of U. S. and Canadian Protestants give money to foreign missions, Dr. Mott said that the whole missionary system is "overworked and undermanned." A 15% increase in staff, he declared, would bring a 100% increase in results. But if missionary zeal is dull at home, Dr. Mott thought that it was keen in the field. Said he: "If Christianity should die out in Europe and America, it exists in such vitality and propagating power in the younger churches of India, China, Japan and Africa, that sooner or later it would spread from those bases...
...that time Sir Thomas fumed: "It is seriously proposed that because we are suffering from a temporary access of jitters and jumps that would bring discredit upon a community of elderly nuns we should discontinue an event that is as regular a feature of our yearly calendar as the Royal Academy, the Military Tattoo, or the Eton and Harrow cricket match...