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Word: bunkered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...daytime," and threatening, if these demands were not complied with, to call a strike "against all extra-curricular activities." Here are real issues and a threat of real action. Let those who despair of American students note the incident and take courage; for the spirit of Lexington and Bunker Hill is not dead. Consider a strike against all extra-curricular activities with the baseball season nearing its culmination and outdoor theatricals and Commencement festivities approaching! The blood in the snow at Valley Forge becomes pale pink by comparison, and Gandhi's non-resistance movement in India appears like a Sunday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Broken on the Wheel | 5/13/1931 | See Source »

...that Biographer Fuess has done, it is not as a statesman but as the orator of the Plymouth oration, the Bunker Hill address, the reply to Hayne, that the U. S. remembers Daniel Webster. Some Websterisms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Godlike Daniel* | 12/15/1930 | See Source »

...notes, divides the "debutante sons" into four groups, the "A's", "B's", "C's", and "And theZ." Although a few indiscriminate residents of cities far removed from the Hub are thrown in, without any particular explanation, the large numbers of social celebrities who live beyond the shadow of Bunker Hill Monument are omitted. Naturally, as in the expose of conditions within the debutante ranks, the comments accompanying each name are more sensational than the actual grading...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Audacious" Undertakes Social Classification of Harvard's 250 in Current Tatler--Names Form Only Basis of Evaluation | 12/2/1930 | See Source »

...action to words, "Mmmm, I always like to dip my bread into my coffee at breakfast, but the Queen doesn't like it and only lets me do it when there is no one present but the family." Screamed Hearstpapers: IT'S OUT! THE KING IS A BUNKER...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Kings, Etc. | 10/13/1930 | See Source »

...foot putt on the 8th, another at the 10th and cut his drive into a whin at the 12th. Voigt was two up. Here Voigt began to slip. He drove out of bounds and lost the 15th. At the Railway Hole he played into Principal's Nose, famed bunker. Suddenly Jones found his putting touch. Needing a long putt for a half at the 17th to avoid going home one down, he sank it. It was his most important shot of the day. Voigt was weak climbing out of the Valley of Sin (swale in front of the 18th...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At St. Andrews | 6/9/1930 | See Source »

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