Word: flagging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Quoth emotional observers: "Many a dark night has passed since the great Osman, looking into a pool of blood, saw a star and the crescent moon there reflected and bethought him of a design for the Turkish flag...
Amid a thunderous uproar the players, who had been cheered individually earlier in the meeting, left the hall. After they had gone, Mike "the original rooter" appeared waving his flag and declaring that Harvard would win Saturday. "We'll beat Yale!" he shouted, and the crowd echoed him in reply
...wholesale growth of hirsute appendages as the final hedge about manhood--the final hazard for women to jump in her pursuit of virility, the bishop, insures himself a place in the category of reforming saints. At last a defender of the faith has been found--a crusade under the flag of "man and superman." But unfortunately for the contention of the bishop, there was buried last month--though not in Carolina--a lady whose sole attraction and main achievement had been a luxuriant beard...
Upon the crimson flag of old Harvard...
...famous dispatch by the Secretary of the Treasury, General John A. Dix, Which contained the direction: 'If any man attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the shot', was transmitted on the evening of January 15, 1861, for the purpose of retaining under the control of the Federal government the United State Coast Guard cutter 'Robert McLelland', then in the port of New Orleans...