Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another day dawned and there lay the cruiser Memphis, smart as a yacht. The Texas, massive manofwar, waited respectfully far offshore. The embarkation ceremonies were stiff but sun-warmed. The Texas poured out a torrent of black smoke and clove the deep blue Gulf for gay Havana...
Because correspondents assume that no statesman ever resigns "because of ill health" they sought but failed to find a political motive. Time was when the Allied nations fairly howled for Gessler's official head, imputing to him the organization of secret German defense units: "The Black Reichswehr." This and a score more of tempests and squalls could not unhorse him. Tomorrow would have brought him only a few more tilts and joustings with statesmen and politicians whom he has often worsted...
Romans awaited the Amir in a city decked with the bright, Italian tricolor: red, white, green. Came the chuffing special from Naples, bearing the sombre banner of Afghanistan: black, but worked in silver with the arms of the Amir. Soon Amanullah, the "Peace of God," descended majestically from his salon...
...Lect. Rm. Mr. Carpenter, 8 Geol. Lect. Rm. Mr. Dewey, 4, 20 New Lect. Hall Mr. Bushnell, 14 New Lect. Hall Mr. Harvey, 17 New Lect. Hall Mr. Keogh, 3, 16 New Lect. Hall Mr. Moore, 2, 18 New Lect. Hall Mr. Smyser, 19, 22 New Lect. Hall Mr. Black, 1 Memorial Hall Mr. McMullen, 5, 10, 15 Memorial Hall Mr. Raymond, 9, 12 Memorial Hall Mr. Wright, 13 Memorial Hall Fine Arts 5e Fogg Mus. Fine Arts 15f Fogg Mus. Fine Arts 17 Fogg Mus. French 10 Harvard 5 French 26 Harvard 6 Government 23 Harvard 6 History...
...rare to give it a common name, but it can be described as a large grey-black fish that resembles the common sunfish, and it has large eyes, large fins, is two and a half feet long, and weighs 20 pounds...