Word: overboard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...falling of crowns, which seemed a logical result of the War, Turkey was a main link in the concatenations of stupendous events. For better or for worse, Turkey became a republic, a midget of a state compared to its former self; all the old panoplies of government were thrown overboard. The Sultan-Calif fled for his life. A new Calif arose; but the Sultanate was ground to dust by the puissant heel of Democracy. It was to be only a matter of time before the sole of the same foot was to crush the Califate, the holy office...
...cities from which they are to be broadcast, whereupon the local stations in those cities will put them on the air. In other words, the main wire channel is limited to what the American Telephone and Telegraph Company can provide. It has a service to maintain, and cannot throw overboard every thing to give right of way to broad casting...
...normal times is satisfied with the achievements of his parents and forbears is at the best ballast which adds nothing to the propelling power of his ship. But the youth who is satisfied with the world as he finds it today is a menace and had better be overboard...
...come to the Exchange concerning the dividend, was carelessly substituted the name "Mother Lode Coalition Mines" for "Kennecott Copper Co." upon whose shares the dividend had really been declared. As soon as news of this discovery was broadcast all the hopeful purchasers of "Mother Lode" promptly threw them overboard and that stock declined below where it had been originally...
...list, wrecked pilothouse gone, light bulkheads crushed, spar deck swept clean, gun-deck partially under water and littered with wreckage, engine rooms obstructed with wreckage and filled two feet deep with sand and coral, the starboard side crushed, one funnel, topmast and all top hamper down or overboard...