Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night they slept in a stand of timberland. "That made me think, well, I believe it belongs to my father." His last three nights in captivity were spent in a house near Issaquah, bundled in his blanket and imprisoned in a closet by a man sleeping just outside its door. He said he was well fed, and when they finally released him on a lonely road just before dawn the men told George: "You've been a fine...
Britain's famed "thin red line" of Empire goes little farther than Quetta, lying beyond the Suliman mountains which wall off India's rich valley of the Indus. The vulnerable door in that wall is the Bolan Pass. With its back to the door is Quetta; beyond it, on the British railroad to the Afghan border, the forts of New Chaman and Pishin. This is the land of the fanatic, black-bearded Pathans. And at Quetta, to draw their teeth, are stationed a British division, the Indian Staff College, a Royal Air Force training school and Sir Alexander...
Aboard the Capetown a short-sighted watch officer spied the khaki-uniformed soldiers clustered about the building door, quickly reported to his commander. Leaping to the telephone, Captain Budgen called Manager Raeburn of Asiatic Petroleum...
...worry about our health. We have just passed through a very laborious Holy Year, but we feel just as well today as when we began it. We expect to live to celebrate not alone our own jubilee after 25 years reign, but also we hope to open the Holy Door for the next Holy Year...
...chief test pilot there from 1923 to 1925, Acosta had been by all odds No. 1 in his profession. It was his favorite boast that he would fly a barn door if it had wings on it. But as his fame grew, so did his reputation as the "bad boy of aviation...