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Word: bring (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Waiting for Spring. Across the choppy Strait of Formosa, the armies of Communist China were waiting for spring to bring them calmer waters. Then, the Nationalists believe, they will try another invasion of Formosa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Report on Formosa | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...been one of them. He knew the angles. Said he: "The Devil will come and bring you another bottle of smoke. You'll go over to Second Avenue and sell a pint of blood for five bucks and get drunk again before the day is over . . . Come and get God's help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: I Was a Stranger ... | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...though sometimes a lot more fun. Bits of it hew more or less to lines out of the Bible ("If you had not plowed with my heifer, you would not have answered my riddle"). But most of it is Biblical ersatz with an Edgar Rice Burroughs flavor ("You will bring death to the village. Samson is our warrior"). And sometimes it lapses into pure Hollywood (Samson to his mother: "Ummm, you're the best cook in Zorah, little mother"). A dialogic highpoint of some kind is reached when Samson, handed a javelin to do battle with the lion, cheerily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Dec. 26, 1949 | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

CRIMSON "share-the-shower" plans went down the drain last night when editors learned that their campaign to bring bathless New York college girls to Harvard tubs might be considered a violation of the Mann...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lawyers Splash Cold Water On Crimson's Bathtub Plan | 12/21/1949 | See Source »

...took a month of pressure-group tactics by Ashley Weare '50 to bring the millenium. And Juan U. Maegli '50, former chairman of the House Committee, had to consult dining hall officials, who consulted other officials...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Inner Life Served By Lowell Squeezer | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

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