Word: ated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have nothing to do but play pool, which they did exuberantly 18 hours at a time in the basement of St. Mary's House. Speaking no English, they preferred to eat at cafeterias where it is possible to order by merely pointing. A few of the braver ate in service restaurants, but limited themselves entirely to Hamanex (ham & eggs) an order internationally understood since...
...some robbers entered the Partos pantry, ate a box of Dr. Partos' pills, became sick, fled without their booty...
...handle committee vacancies the Sen ate majority maintains an unofficial group known as the Committee on Committees. This committee stalled in a deadlock when four of its members (Reed, Moses, Bingham, Deneen) voted for Senator Goff for the Finance Committee while four others (Capper, Nye, Oddie, McNary) voted for Senator La Follette. Declared Senator Reed Smoot : "I haven't said I'd resign as Chairman [of the Finance Committee] if Senator La Follette is named but I feel I should if the Committee falls into hostile hands...
Modern missionaries lead safe lives; the years are long past when cannibals ate them. But at the Africa Inland Mission Station in Kijabe is a little dwelling some 300 yards from the rest of the buildings. Hulda Stumpf, Secretary to the Head Missionary, lived there alone. She was 63, had been in Kijabe for 20 years. She had grown deaf in the Lord's service. Last week her body was found, attacked, bruised, smothered to death...
...What is that which is fourfooted, three-footed and two-footed?" That horrendous bogey, the ancient Theban Sphinx, who had the face of a woman, the feet and tail of a lion, and the wings of a bird, ate up the Thebans who could not guess her riddle.* Smart Oedipus answered her: Man, who goes on allfours as a baby, on two legs as an adult, on two legs and a cane in old age. Whereupon the vexed Sphinx threw herself from a mountain...