Word: holing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...past 8 o'clock on the morning of January 24, and will be at its height at 15 minutes past 9 o'clock. One thing of great interest is to observe the peculiar images cast by the sun during the partial period. A ray of light through a knot hole, for instance, will cast a crescent shaped image on the floor instead of the ordinary round...
...next scene found Anna dead, a bullet hole in her head, and the Vice Consul mortally wounded, three bullets having passed through his neck. Police removed him to the hospital where he later died...
Last week, the Izaak Walton League announced itself to be desirous of money offerings from U. S. sportsmen to make up a Christmas present to the elk herds of the Jackson Hole Region, Wyo. The present would be in the form of lands adjacent to Winter Elk Refuge and of an emergency hay fund, to supplement Federal and State appropriations in starvation winters. Said Dr. E. W. Nelson, Chief of the U. S. Biological Survey: "And a real present in the spirit of the Christmas season it will...
...world, until Anthony Comstock came and raised the fuss that sold Miss Morn into the millions; of "Lot's Wife," sculped in salt to advertise The Queen of Sin and left lying about with a note of introduction from Sodom and Gomorrah. The police discovered her-and the hole in her back showing her wooden spine...
...anything it tried worked. Its trick plays were a big advantage. They accounted for substantial gains and were seldom diagnosed by Harvard largely on account of the speed and precision with which they were executed. A Tiger back would turn, fake an exchange, turn again and plunge through a hole made vacant by the stratagem...