Word: frayed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Quick as scat the President declared martial law. When the mob reached Government House soldiers began by breaking heads with the butts of their rifles, later fired. In the bloody fray five students were butchered...
...materially to the municipal supply through an 80-mi. aqueduct. New Jersey hustled into the Supreme Court with a demand for an injunction against New York on the ground that diversion of the Delaware would seriously damage its interests. Pennsylvania, mindful of Philadelphia's future water needs, joined the fray. To Special Master Charles Newell Burch of Memphis the Supreme Court referred the case for hearing. Last February Mr. Burch in his report advised the Court to allow New York to draw 440,000,000 gal. per day from the upper Delaware (about one-sixth of its average flow) provided...
Alarm in the City. Following the Chancellor's speech, Liberal Leader David Lloyd George leaped next day into the Parliamentary fray, proceeded with characteristic bombast to out-Socialist the Socialists, and proposed in terms which he carefully left vague "prompt measures to utilize the labor of workers in useful and essential schemes of national development...
...very impressive. Harvard has seven victories and three defeats to its record thus far. Two consecutive games were dropped during the Christmas recess on out of town games with City College of New York and West Point. The third game, lost to Dartmouth, was also an out of town fray. HARVARD PENNSYLVANIA Holland, r.f. l.f., Hale Pattison, l.f. r.f., Ullrich Rauh, c. c., Sander Hageman,r.g. l.g., Peterson Farrell, l.g. r.g., Tanseer
Bainbridge Colby: "I can only think of the Miltonic line: 'Chaos Umpire sits and by decision more embroils the fray...