Word: panning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...everyone knows, the question of what is to be done with some 35,000 square miles of territory bounded by Turkey, Persia, the British protected Kingdom of Irak, and the French mandated region of Syria. The Kemalist Government of Turkey wants the territory as a matter of Pan-Islamic Nationalist policy; and Great Britain is equally determined that Mosul shall remain sufficiently dominated by Downing Street to keep open the Palestine-TransJordania-Irak route on India...
...stood in the back yard of his boarding house, carroled loudly, "Yes, We Have No Bananas!" Cried his landlady, a Mrs. Ritter; "Ain't you never going to shut up on that tune, Smottox?" An instant later, as the "Smottox" carroled on, she heaved "a red hot frying pan" out the window "just to scare...
...pan, grazing the singer's ear, burned him severely. Outraged, he quitted Landlady Hitter's establishment, after a stay of 18 years...
...yards farther down the field, which was as far as he needed to go. In the next period, when Princeton was in danger, Dignan punted 71 yards. These two fabulous feats, plus the work of a line that never wavered, made it possible for big W. H. Edwards ("Peter Pan of Princeton") to climb down from the stands and lead a writhing battalion to tear down the goal posts for souvenirs. Score: Princeton 25, Yale...