Word: holing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hour until all three were hanged and dead. Father Collins standing beside the sheriff smiled through it all. Since Hernando Negroes did not want the bodies buried in their cemetery, the guardsmen, followed by the crowd, took the corpses in their trucks to the poor farm where a hole 7 ft. square had been dug. "Throw 'em in," shouted the crowd. Sheriff Lauderdale warned them: "I'm still in charge, and I'm going to see they are buried right." While the dirt was shoveled in some members of the crowd chanted, "I'm Headin...
...line in his red Barracuda, smashed into a little rowboat which he had failed to notice in his path. In the rowboat were the Marquis de la Gandara and his mechanic. They were fished out safe and sound but officials refused to give the Count time to patch the hole in the Barracuda's bow. It made small difference in the result. His teammate Becchi, veteran automobile and motorboat racer, who wears plugs in his ears because years of driving high-powered motors have made them oversensitive, drove to his third consecutive victory in his cigar-shaped...
...which keeps track of the temperature. Its creators state that the oceanograph is accurate to within one foot of depth and one-tenth of one degree Fahrenheit in temperature. It is to be used on the 142-ft. auxiliary ketch Atlantis, peripatetic research ship of the Wood's Hole (Mass.) Oceanographic Institution...
...exchange may be termed a white chip trading rendezvous for stocks. Mining and oil stocks are naturally of a speculative character and we do not attempt to make the public think they are anything Ise. A hole in the ground today may be a mine of value tomorrow, while a mine of value today may be a hole of tremendous proportions the following...
...bonus boosters were not long celebrating their victory. With the petition completed, the House under its rules would shortly be forced to a record vote on the issue. Many a Representative was thus put in a tight hole. If he voted for the bill he could be accused of greenbackery. If he voted against it, veterans would never forgive him. About the House Chamber circulated pitiful pleas that the Administration help its friends out of their predicament by getting the Ways & Means committee to report the bill unfavorably before the petition becomes effective, a piece of parliamentary hocus-pocus that...