Word: pined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...agog at this omen of good luck. When the turtle, having laid exactly 70 eggs, retired into the sea, it was bruited throughout Japan that the Crown Princess Nagako would be certain to give birth to a male heir. Then a pair of sacred cranes nested in a great pine tree almost at the imperial threshold, and this omen was thought to be so certain of fulfillment that the Japanese newspapers commenced to refer to the expected child...
...were wont to observe Harvard's secret practice on Soldiers Field from the Mount Auburn Cemetery tower, until Major Henry Lee Higginson was apprised of the situation and built such a lofty fence in a strategic position that thenceforth the Yale scouts saw nothing but an expanse of pine boards...
...Plot, it was declared, had been carefully hatched by Zaniboni and General Luigi Capello (famed anti-Fascist Freemason leader), who had motored to Rome from Parma some three days earlier. Before reaching Rome they are said to have halted near a thick pine grove in order that Zaniboni might receive last minute practice in the use of his rifle, which he fired for a long time at a target set up 100 yards distant in the woods...
...circumstances in this case show that it will be impossible to keep peace in the Republican party in Oklahoma unless Senator Pine and myself are consulted about these appointments and removals and I feel it but fair to say to you in advance that we shall expect this courtesy from your department...
Reviving from the blow dealt by Pennsylvania on October 10, the Brown eleven ran roughshod ever its second opponent from the Pine Tree State. Earlier in the season Colby was trampled under foot in the new Brown stadium...