Word: docks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hang by the neck until dead, the Mohammedan seemed stunned. Then suddenly Hakim Bakhtyar Rustomji Ratanji came to himself and without jittering or trembling gave his British judge with upraised arm the salute of Oriental warriors. As two wardens came to lead him from the prisoner's dock, Ratanji gave the same salute to the uncomfortable, astonished British jury...
...most unmanageable of the lot. Despite his years at Harrow and at Cambridge, Byron never quite learned what was cricket and what was not. If many of his acts had been committed by anyone other than a poet, that person would long ago have found himself in the dock of the historians' Old Bailey, and the unanimous verdict of those moralists would have condemned him to everlasting infamy as a cad. Even as it is, his biography is not a pretty tale, but it has the sort of satanic interest which always clings to the "roses and raptures of vice...
...affirmative speech of Herman Dock, Dartmouth '36, was largely composed of a mass of detail to support the point of the inability of congress to regulate utility companies under the present setup...
...Herman Dock '36, of Narragansett, Rhode Island, and Arthur Ekirch '37, of White Plains, New York, will represent the Green over...
...watched the Lindberghs run to ground like rabbits by the British Press. At Liverpool waited some 100 British newshawks and a score from the continent, ready with tugs, speedboats, airplanes and racing automobiles to circumvent any Lindbergh attempt to escape from their questions and cameras. Held back at the dock by police, they gave chase in automobiles, were balked when their prey holed up in a Liverpool hotel. Angrily they haunched down in the lobby, prepared to pounce at the first opportunity...