Word: stake
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...giant raffle for the school's benefit (with one local dealer donating three new cars as prizes) became one of Monterrey's big annual events. Grocers, butchers and other small merchants responded generously to campaigns aimed at giving all local business a stake in the school. With more than enough on tap to meet its 60% operating deficit, Tecnológico last week got a rousing boost from outside. In Mexico City, 600 miles to the south, executives in the U.S. industrial colony (including branches of General Electric, Westinghouse, Goodyear) opened a drive for $58,000 to boost...
...rolling hills of Via Aurelia, on a plot of 124 meager acres which had produced nothing but blackberries for years, the land-hungry were fiercely hacking away weeds and shrubs; one old man, behind a pair of snow-white oxen, turned a fresh furrow in the fallow earth to stake his claim...
...regret to record these matters," Bishop Oxnam said. "But ... we confront a crisis, now worldwide, in which freedom itself is at stake. The Roman Catholic Church does not believe in religious liberty as we understand it. The Communist Party does not believe in civil liberty as we understand it. When either the Roman Catholic Church or the Communist Party, acting upon its belief in these matters, seeks to deny to us either religious or civil liberty, our own freedom is involved, and it is not a part of tolerance to submit to such denials until at last our freedom passes...
...last week, the President of Bolivia's Chamber of Deputies rose gravely to read a cable from Paris asking that the amendment be pigeonholed. "I do not ask you, Mr. President, to take any action contrary to law," the cable read, "but presently the only divorce suit ... at stake is the one brought against me ..." It was signed Cristina de Borbón de Pati...
...International Amphitheater in the heart of Chicago's stockyards, last week, a scarlet-coated trumpeter tooted his horn. A hush fell over a sellout crowd of 11,000. Fourteen high-stepping horses trotted into the ring, their tails arched high,*their riders sitting with ramrod-straight backs. At stake was the championship for five-gaited horses...