Word: penning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...each man in the face. Under this treatment two of the three British tars agreed to sign a declaration that they were guilty. The third, although his jaw was broken, still refused to sign. While police again held him down, a Japanese detective jabbed the point of a fountain pen deeply under the sailor's nails and vigorously worked the fountain pen lever, shooting ink into the wounds until the sweating prisoner agreed to take the pen, sign a confession...
...incensed that he postponed a scheduled trip to Japan. In London, news of the Japanese provocation at Keelung was kept secret long after the facts were known at the British Admiralty, and not a single Japanese newsorgan carried so much as a line on the Keelung ordeal by pen...
...radiating his poultry pen with ultraviolet light, a farmer near Niles Center, Ill., raised chickens whose flesh was all white meat...
...true that the historical heritage of Harvard played a large part in the minds of all who shared in the celebration. The stream of Puritan propaganda from Professor Morison's able pen aroused as much undergraduate indignation about Mistress Eaton's ale and hasty pudding scandals as the student body normal expresses in a Rinehart riot. Rays of past glory were even reflected in the window of a local purveyor, who offered a Tercentenary Cocktail to warm the cockles of your heart after the chilling effects of New England rain in the Tercentenary Theatre. But ghosts from distant times were...
...Texas Centennial Ail-American Swine Show in Dallas last week a Poland China sow named Royal Lady farrowed eleven shoats between noon and 2 p. m., entered the show ring and won the senior yearling blue ribbon and a $20 prize, returned to her pen and delivered another piglet, returned to the ring and won the senior championship and a $10 prize, returned to her pen and delivered piglet No. 13, returned to the ring and won the grand championship and another $10 prize...