Word: lick
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...Kentucky, diggers from the University of Kentucky unearthed 21 Indian skeletons, sitting up in their graves amid shell and bone implements and ornaments unlike any ever before found. The graves, discovered two feet deep in cultivated fields, were in an area of Mason County, near May's Lick, where mastodon bones were once found...
...discovered to vary in intensity by the astronomer Fabricus in 1596. It is a deep red color and fluctuates in periods of eleven months -is sometimes 200 times brighter at maximum than at minimum light. Mira has a companion star very close to it, which was discovered at Lick Observatory...
...Manhattan, Herbert J. ("Kid") Yates, 47 years, 165 Ibs., President of The Consolidated Film Co., No, 729 Seventh Ave., posted a bet of $50,000 that he could lick any business man of his age or over. H. A. Hallenbeck, Manhattan publisher, accepted the challenge, deposited his check for the amount. "Kid" Yates let his challenge stand. All over the U. S., other business men, staunch fisticuffers of 47 or more, irritated, began to look to their biceps, their check books...
...gentility has become recognized far and wide, his memories have taken shape in his mind, he has written* a book†. Like John Keats, he was a livery-stable keeper's son. His father intended him for the priesthood, but he crossed himself and went out to lick the boys. His first fight was with Joe Choinyski, whom he calls "one of the gamest and best fighters that ever lived"-a slugging match on a raft in San Francisco Bay. Then he made a wreck out of Jake Kilrain, was matched with John L. Sullivan, the Strong...
Irish Literature. "In no country where there is action is thought found. When a Nation is fighting, it is doing nothing else. And, after they have put their backs into it, they want to sit down and lick their wounds. "Great Art cannot spring out of war, at least not then. The children will do it. They are hearing their fathers and their grandfathers speak of the trials and the dangers and the heroics and the horrors of war. They are growing up in an endless story-telling of war, and out of it will come...