Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...capture there were actually slaves aboard. That a slaver could be smelled "five miles down the wind" made camouflage the more difficult, and upon such a reeking suspect four war-vessels one day descended. Fortunately for the suspect captain, the law was becalmed long enough for him to drop his 600 slaves overboard, chained to the anchor...
...gather for spiritual consolation, denied that she had ever counselled violence, threw open her blue prison blouse and showed reporters a cross branded on her breast, said: "In suffering there is redemption. I've been happy all the time I've been in jail-would give drop by drop my blood, if I could end this conflict...
...women and men to desire more real silk. This is also true of pearls. The U. S. and France sell the artificial ones. Thus people learn the beauty of the real ones and buy-from Mexico, Ceylon, Arabia. Into this double pearl demand Japan has insinuated itself. Work people drop a grain of irritant into an oyster's shell. A kind of hard felon develops in the oyster. It is a cultured pearl...
...thousand feet above Chicago, Jack Cope stepped out the cabin door of his airplane, counted 28 before he pulled the parachute cord, landed buoyantly among a golf foursome. In the 13½ seconds before the parachute opened he had fallen 3,400 feet, a new sheer drop record...
...never take a drop now-wouldn't if I could...