Word: moat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...limited liability' is impossible, and also that to enter upon war with any idea of conserving our strength is to invite defeat. The first assertion is unhistorical; the second unpractical. We conducted all our wars until the last on the policy of profiting by our sea-moat and seapower to limit our liability . . . and had a sustained run of success in, and after, them that no other modern nation has known...
...Angeles Chamber of Commerce, Kensuke Horinouchi (his name means: "In the Moat") smiled his toothiest smile last week and said...
Because his mood was ornery, hers kittenish, an elephant named Bill last August butted his 3,000-lb. mate, Hilda, into a 14-ft.-deep moat at their Prospect Park (Brooklyn) home. Death shortly came to Hilda. The fall had fractured her spine...
Last week fate struck back at the two-ton wife-killer. Children were tossing peanuts across the moat to Bill. Reaching for a weakly-tossed one, Bill greedily leaned forward, teetered, landed pomph on the concrete floor of the moat...
...Bill's rescue came Brooklyn's Police, Park and Sanitation Departments, hoisted him out of the moat, placed him before Veterinarian Harry Nimphius. Diagnosis: partial fracture of the right hipbone...