Word: moor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...base of the little finger of his right hand. One English sports writer said that the match ought to be postponed. Hagen wanted it postponed himself. He explained that he had come all the way from Los Angeles in twelve days, and that except for that one day at Moor Park he hadn't had any practice except a few balls which he drove off the roof of his hotel into the Thames, and that he had been acting in the cinema all winter. Told that he would have to play anyway, he hired a detective...
These periods, which are called "reading periods," will be given to assigned reading for laboratory work, to be done by the student without assistance from tutor or lecturer. A test of the reading will be given in the general examination. This means, as explained by Dean Moor, that there will be approximately six weeks in the academic year in which members of the three upper classes will be more or less engaged in educating themselves without help, or, it is added, hindrance from their elders. The great purpose of a college education being to train men to train themselves...
...where he maintained an admirably unrepentant and sinister smile. To him the Othello of Louis Leon Hall was an excellent foil. Mr. Hall is portly, with a cheerful rotund face, which, well darkened, brought out the whites of his rolling eyes, and gave him the jolly aspect of a Moor who has made up many a Pullman berth in his time. It was perhaps to attain more dignity that he thundered and declaimed his lines, with sweeping gestures; but he did it well, and in his scenes with Desdemona he was all simple sincerity...
...this one scans the London Times and invariably finds, at the proper season, that a great many Scotsmen want to rent their grouse moors. Rental for a whole season may run up to £5,000 ($24,300) or more; but thrifty hunters know that they can often pick up a fair moor for a week or two at relatively trifling cost. Having rented a moor, one must then bring or buy much hunting gear, and, in any case, should wear the hunting costume of the moment. This ensemble, which varies slightly each season, is often topped off with...
While waiting for this to happen no gentleman will omit a few modest, customary intimations that the number of birds which he slew last year on such-and-such a moor was really colossal...