Word: hid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Turk or an American Mormon being in the house." Highest spot of the summer's adventures was when he was almost caught after lights telling ghost-stories to eight of his bevy in one of their rooms (out of bounds). When Chaperone Lulu knocked on the door Walter hid under the bed. Chaperone Lulu suspected nothing, the girls kept straight faces till "one of Miss Lulu's respectable feet kicked an earthenware object under the bed. There was a musical 'ping,' immediately followed by an almost hysterical outburst on the part of the eight girls." Everything...
...Leland Stanford team for its game with Dartmouth, in the Stadium, recently contributed to Collier's an article in which he tells some of his experiences with the Indian players. Naturally he pays attention to the trick Carlisle worked on Harvard in 1903, when Dillon, one of the Indians, hid the ball under the back of his jersey, and made a touchdown from the kickoff because the Harvard players could not tell where the ball...
...firewood, struck an iron pot, he was sure it was a pot of gold. For once Andy w was right: the pot held over $1,900 in coin, and two pearls. At first the old couple wanted to run and tell everybody, then they thought better of it. They hid the treasure in the house, invited the neighbors to a surprise party. By the time the night of the party came they had worried so much about their riches that they decided to say nothing about it after all. In order to have a surprise, Philly persuaded a young couple...
...During the draft riots of 1863, mobs stampeded the streets, hunting Negroes. The Church of the Transfiguration had previously been believed to be an "underground station" for runaway slaves. Dr. Houghton, stanch Abolitionist, hid many Negroes in it during the riots, once stood defiantly at the gate shouting: "You white devils, you! Do you know nothing of the spirit of Christ?" Today in the Church is a memorial to George & Elizabeth Wilson. Negro doorkeepers, representing the baptism of the Ethiopian by St. Philip...
Preoccupied with research and dreading lay notice, young Dr. Moses Swick last week hid in the laboratory recesses of Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital. He had developed a method of making the kidneys visible to x-ray photography. The method is so original, reliable and useful that urologists dignify it with the name Swick Method. The shadow material is called lopax in the U. S., Uroselectan in Germany. Its development was the result of chance, curiosity and an inference...