Word: summoning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...General Electric Co. announced that Postmaster General New has ordered all mail planes to be equipped with special radio sending and receiving sets. Pilots can converse with land stations, get their bearings in rain, fog or night, find out the weather ahead of them, summon help in case of emergency landings. Exhaustive tests show that the equipment will work even when thoroughly saturated with rain or snow...
...Thou knowest how great is the need of Thy word and gesture at this special time. Thou knowest well that Thy glance can transform our spirit, that Thy voice can summon us from the depths of our misery...
...Cutcheon, who clocked in 27m. 46s., pulled himself up into second place by passing Rooney and finishing one second ahead of him. Bemis of M. I. T. followed half a dozen seconds later. Duffy had been running as steady a pace as any, but towards the end could not summon the additional stength to pevent Chapin stealing his fifth place by two seconds...
...Significance. Few average readers will be able to summon up any sort of a yawn over North of 36, It has the usual appurtenances of "Western" fiction?but it has something more. The man who wrote it knew the country and people he wrote about as most "Western" writers do not;?conscientiousness, craftmanship and sincerity are evident throughout the novel. What faults there are are faults neither of intention nor laziness?you have the constant feeling that here is a book written as well as the particular author concerned could write...
...said that Premier Mussolini intends to summon a general election next Fall, and is therefore anxious to get an early approval of the electoral reform. This is rendered even more urgent by demonstrations favoring the monarchy but hostile to Fascismo, which were held recently in several parts of Italy...