Word: horning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...harbor with bo'ts made o gingerbread an paint, that come a-scurryin' back to their moorin's a fore it blows hard enough to muss a woman's hair. Not much like ye, them yachts. I'd like to see one o'them bo'ts beatin' round the Horn an' up to Californy in ninety-two days! That's what ye done, ole girl! Praise be there's some as ain't forgot it! Maybe some...
...ball was much oftener in Middlebury territory than in the University's. Just before the end of the quarter, Akers ran back a kick of Quackenbush to the University's 42 yard line. After a 14 yard gain by Hammond and yard gains by Cheek and Howe, the horn ended the quarter. A feeble attempt to pass was made, after which Hammond kicked out side at Middlebury's 13 yard line. Holquist fumbled and Eastman recovered the ball on the blue's 20 yard line. The University lost the ball on downs only to regain it when Carleton fumbled...
...square miles, considerably more than twice that of Texas, the largest state. It has a population of about 54,000, considerably less than three-quarters of that of Nevada, the least populated state. It is shaped, roughly, like the head of a bull turned upside down, one horn being the Alaska Peninsula, the other what is known as the Panhandle, a strip of territory extending down the Canadian coast. Its population, about half white and half Indian, averages less than one for every ten square miles, and is congregated (as much as it can be said to be congregated) along...
These words were spoken by Patriarch Meletios Metaxakis to a newspaper reporter as he was being ferried over the Golden Horn to a British warship. He had just finished his last ministrations in the Greek Cathedral at Constantinople, had handed over his ecclesiastical powers to the Holy Synod, and was on his way to the great Greek Orthodox monastery of Mount Athos, in Greece. He had steadfastly resisted Turkish power in " internationalized '' Constantinople. His departure was demanded not only by the Turks, but urged by Venizelos as the only possible means of bringing agreement at the Lausanne Conference...
...clear notes fell on the heavy air from the ship's bell. The gangways were run in; the cables cast off. The ship's horn spoke-three loud blasts. With the rumble of the propellors, turbulent white water appeared at the great ship's stern. Then suddenly rain fell in torrents...