Word: hat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...winners of the tourney, which is open to all servicemen stationed here and to all civilians now attending any part of the University, will be awarded certificates of merit. There will be no seeding of entries, and opponents will be drawn from a hat...
Companion volumes by the same authors list Tibetan syllables according to phonetic values (English alphabetical order), Tibetan verbs, commonplace chater for travelers. But Gould & Richardson lope that their students, will not be unmoved by Tibetan's poetic quality, claim hat the language challenges Chinese in its imagery. The name, for example, of one of he most glorious Himalayan pinnacles, Canchenjanga, third highest in the world, means "The Five Storehouses of the Great Snow...
...pated William Christian Bullitt last week tossed his top hat in the political ring. The candidacy: Democratic, for Mayor of Philadelphia, at the election this...
Arithmetic of Destruction. The Jap ships were dead ahead of them. Zeros were flashing from nearby clouds, scud streaming off their wings. Torpedo 8's plummeting craft were so low "a man could hang his hat on them." Twenty thousand eyes, thought Swede, must be watching from the decks below, ten thousand minds trying to estimate what he and his mates would do. "And there the torpedo pilot sits, throwing his plane around with both hands and both feet, his eyes flitting from enemy plane to enemy ships to target to waves to altimeter to speedometer, his brain racing...
John Payne climbs from the wrong side of the tracks to San Francisco's Nobb Hill, going "high hat in a big way" as he terms it. Lynn Bari proves to be a stumbling block, however, and Alice Faye picks up the pieces...