Word: duns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dehra Dun, India, experts of the Forest Research Institute announced the perfection of a process for making white paper out of bamboo pulp; predicted that India could soon supply a large percentage of the world's paper demand. (A bamboo forest grows to an average height of 20 to 60 feet. The largest species reaches a height of 120 feet...
Outside of Plain Dealing, La., little dun dogs peered through slack, seamy, deep-set eyes, sniffed eagerly. Five hundred and two armed men followed. They shook trees, stuck sticks up hollow logs- suddenly licked parched lips as the hounds began to whimper. They were looking for Judge Powell, Negro. Fool, he had slain Sheriff Dooley. Now they had found him. He whimpered as the hounds leapt about him, yelped. He cowered in the cotton field. Guns spat. He shrieked, groaned, died. Little dun dogs closed in, sniffed eagerly. At Wytheville, Va., last week gentry stormed the county jail; shot Raymond...
...charming woman who has served the Empire in a century. Middleaged, but slender and quick as a girl, she was by title only Oriental secretary to Sir Henry Dobbs, British High Commissioner to Irak. Actually Sir Henry, King Faisal of Irak, and Premier Abdul Mushsin Beg al Ga'dun, deferred consistently to her as the most brilliant and profound feminine apostle of Anglo-Mesopotamian concord who ever lived. The kingdom of Irak was in sober truth her realm...
Entered for the Grand National Handicap was Whitefoot, holder of the world's record of 11 2/5 sec. for 200 yd. (owner: James Gilligan, Lawrence, Mass.) The winner was Lion, a dun streak from Dalton, Mass., owned by P. A. and J. B. Draper, which went...
...hates to dun Speed. Speed is his friend, his good old boy friend, perhaps his fraternity brother. The thing goes on. Perhaps Speed never pays him back. Ten dollars isn't much, but it's the principle of the thing. And sometimes these informal loans involve real principal. Then Speed and Joe, once good friends, reach a snarling estrangement. One calls the other "tightwad," "usurer"; is himself called "dead beat," "sponger," "crook," "bummer...