Word: bringing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Voyons, Messieurs! With what do you reproach me? The only two laws which have been passed since my Government came into office [TIME, Nov. 11] had the support of five-sixths of the Chamber. Shall I make another argument? 'Don't you dare disown me when I bring you your own babies under...
...very happy, waiting only to die. Could they bring him anything? He declined a two-year supply of food which they carried up to him in tins, but accepted an overcoat. He was getting old, he said, and the nights in his cave were sometimes so cold the snakes would creep to him for warmth. He thanked them for the overcoat-which had to be smuggled to him because the monasteries disapprove of him, the solitary-and in return asked them only one favor: they must never tell anyone his real name. Let them call him "Father Ilya" or anything...
Last week artistic Manhattan primped and prinked for a distinguished guest. Ivan Mestrovic was expected to appear in person at an exhibition of his recent sculptures. Then he cabled from Paris where he now has a studio; he could not come; next autumn he would bring sketches for two new doors for St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan...
...America), youngest member of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition; in Little America. Age: 21. National Scout Commissioner Daniel Carter ("Duffle Bag") Beard, felicitated him over the radio, announced his promotion to grade of mate of the Sea Scout Ship Niagara. Concluded Commissioner Beard: "Oh, say! Don't forget to bring back a coop of penguins and a school of killer whales. They will need them to guard you on the flagship Niagara...
...physics laboratory at Cornell University and announced last week. One of his graduate students, Dr. P. H. Carr of Gaffney, S. C., had noted how pitted the metal targets of X-ray tubes became after long electronic bambardment,* and inferred that flicking light also left its invisible mark. To bring such marks, if existent into sight meant long trials of various reagents on such battered metals. In the end he found that mercury vapor "developed" electronic engravings on gold, iodine on silver, hydrochloric acid on zinc, iodine on copper...