Word: bin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lunches. Worried lest the big flag catch fire, Miss De Lee took it down, pinned up a small one. Mr. Armstrong, infuriated, tore down the small flag, ordered the big one up again. Next day there was no flag at all and the small one was in the coal bin. "Hang the big flag where I say," stormed the trustee. "Go home and mind your own business," shrilled the teacher. "You're through," cried the trustee...
...fell sound asleep. Star witness was Ward's big brother Edward. "What did your brother do after the plaster was put on his lips?" Edward was asked. "He started studying," replied the witness. Loyal pupils testified that Trustee Armstrong himself had placed the small flag in the coal bin, that they had not recited the oath of allegiance regularly since Miss De Lee left. Tightly clasping an American Beauty rose, Miss De Lee took the stand to deny that she was a Communist, quote from a teachers' syllabus in defense of her practice of admitting pet hens...
...Peacock and trained his guns upon the iniquitous Boxers of Tientsin. For that they gave him the China Medal. In 1904, on the bridge of H. M. S. Dryad he plowed the Indian Ocean from the Strait of Malacca to the Gulf of Aden, trained his guns on Mohammed bin Abdullah, the mad Mullah of Somaliland. For that they made him a Medal & Clasp Commander. In 1914, -15, -16, -17 on the flagship of the British Destroyer Flotilla, he trained his guns on Austrian submarines. For that they gave...
...life, for knowledge, for power, and love, ere it were too late. In the distance was the rumble of vernal thunder. Starting the old fellow from his melancholy reverie came a knocking, one, two,--three. He rose hastily, slid back the bolt on the studded door, and shrank back. "Bin ich ein Gott!" he murmured...
...Cozl Bin's Son. Newton Baker is no more a native son of Ohio than Governor White. Sired by a country doctor who rode in "Jeb" Stuart's Confederate cavalry, he was born 61 years ago at Martinsburg in what has been called "Ohio's Coal Bin," West Virginia...