Word: bin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day Mookini was aboard the Malolo before sailing time. Suddenly a little naval tender darted up offside the liner. Through a cargo port jumped Mrs. Fortescue, Lieut. Massie and his wife. Mrs. Massie scampered around a potato bin, through a pantry-and there in a hot corridor stood Mookini with his summons. Before the Hawaiian could read it, he was shouldered put of the way by Capt. Ward Wortman, naval guardian for the defendants during the Kahahawai trial. Mrs. Massie slipped past, fled to her stateroom, slammed the door. Capt. Wortman and process server wrangled bitterly outside. On deck...
...Barrie's "Peter Pan;'' and the Honorable Margaret Leslie Hore-Ruthven, one of the famed socialite twin daughters of Lord Ruthven, Lieutenant Governor of the Island of Guernsey; in London. To escape the crowds outside, Author Barrie, the bridegroom's godfather, left the church via furnace room and coal bin...
...Doha, on the Persian Gulf. The journey emptied geography of ignorance, emptied also any hopes of discovering a better world on Planet Earth. The cartographical blind spot had been filled in with 600 miles of burning sand. An "unprecedented suspension of blood feuds" among the Arabs, due to Bin Sa'ud's benign but determined autocracy, made the journey possible. From the coast of the Arabian Sea, Explorer Thomas sent inland two Rashidi tribesmen to collect camels, men to conduct him over the Qara mountains to the desert's edge. Shaikh Salih went ahead to organize...
...bin 10 ft. long, 5 ft. wide and 3 ft. 7 in. deep?how many bushels of wheat will it contain, allowing 2,150 cubic in. to the bushel...
...talk about the essential violator of Prohibition, the person who uses alcoholic beverages. . . . There are millions of him throughout the land. Whether he serves wine to his dinner guests, whether he brews and drinks a makeshift beer, whether he keeps a jug of corn or apple in his oat bin or hayloft, he instinctively feels he is within his personal and private rights and it's nobody's business. . . . Drop shams and subterfuges and declare the user of alcoholic beverages the criminal and turn loose your enforcement forces against...