Word: hatched
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...compound will be through a cleansing room built into the fence. Whoever enters the compound must remove his outer clothing in this room, and then, stepping into an adjoining chamber, bathe and put on special clothing. Food will be cooked and sterilized outside and passed in through a special hatch...
...shoos away from her attractive, gambling husband. But she employs an old, old shoo: she saves money on the side. When the crash comes they depart to hatch a new life out of her nest...
...white men, two Negroes and 20 Chinese remained. The crew knew that the Chinese had $5,000 in unpaid passage money. The schooner rolled on a gentle swell. One of the crew went to the hatch and ordered five coolies on deck?a storm was coming up; the ship must be made ready...
...Asia Minor on August 28, of last year. On September 9, Turkish troops entered Smyrna after the Greek army had evacuated the town. September 29, the principal Allied Powers issued a note inviting Turkey to a conference at Lausanne. Another peace egg was laid, and again Turkey refused to hatch it. The present conference is then a peace conference between the Allied and Associated Powers and Turkey on the one hand and Greece and Turkey on the other. The United States is acting separately...
...referee is entitled by statute to $10 a day, unless " a smaller compensation is fixed by the court or judge in the order appointing him.'' But the parties may agree upon a larger amount, and usually do. There is, in fact, nothing unusual in referee Hatch's allowance, although the layman may find it curious that he should receive for one year a fee which he would not obtain by continuous work for the rest of his natural life at the statutory rate...