Word: canvased
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From the depths of the U-19 a collapsible canvas rowboat was produced. The tall gaunt man and two Irish companions stepped into it and commenced to row ashore. The commander of the submarine called after them, "Sir Roger Casement! Is there nothing more that you require?"
Standing up in his. canvas cockleshell, the man, who had spent two years attempting to organize Irish prisoners of war captured by the Germans into an "Irish Army," reflected. He had been able to seduce but 56 Irish prisoners into his "army." And he so distrusted their loyalty that he...
The Significance. In this his second novel, Mr. Bromfield has painted a large canvas, the small town in all its smallness, Manhattan both as the little clerk sees it and as society lives it, and Paris, the cosmopolis. Having a large canvas, he was not as economical as he might...
For some 25 years, beginning with 1879, canvas jackets were won over the jersey. Some of these jackets had the "H," others did not. Until 1892, the gridiron sweater, like that of the crew, was white with the "H," in crimson. In two, years, 1892 and 1893, the football sweater...
It is hard to picture the opening game of that momentous thirteenth of November, 1875. Fifteen men played on a side in athletic shirts and canvas trousers. The crowd of 1500 was large enough to cause comment then, but would scarcely fill a section in the Stadium today. Still, it...