Word: basketing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...editor of the Junior Red Cross News pointed out that a Spanish parish priest might very well add "such homely touches" as giving a barley wafer (not a consecrated wheat wafer) to an animal. St. Anthony the Abbot is the patron of domestic animals as well as of hospitallers, basket-makers, butchers, gravediggers. On his feast, Jan. 17, the Italian and Spanish faithful may bring their animals to be blessed with a special prayer and be sprinkled with holy water...
Winthrop and Brooks played the closest game of the day with the victor in doubt to the last minute of play. Winthrop finally sank the winning basket late in the game to beat the Brooks outfit...
...Shih, Chinese poet and philosopher, during the Japanese bombardment. Dr. Shih himself was in great danger as he was being sought by the Japanese. When troops began sacking the city I hid the head in the bathtub and my husband and I moved it out in a basket before it was dry. Two days later the hotel was sacked...
After building up a 10-9 lead in the first half, the B.U. quintet scored quickly on a close shot by Garabedian, and managed to keep the lead to the end. A basket by Hale, with only a minute to play, ended the scoring and clinched the game for the visitors. Semine, at left guard, scored four fouls...
...know whether she was a phantom of his sub-conscious imagination, a ghost, or a real person. We are assured that the whole thing is probably but a lapse into madness, but the last bit of evidence about the finding of the basket she had carried makes us wonder. It is this very uncertainty that makes the story uncanny and also successful...