Word: rill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago, after a prolonged proxy battle in which neither side got a clear-cut quorum, the two generals made a deal: C. & O.'s board was increased from nine to eleven members to include three Guaranty lieutenants, John Hollister, John Dickinson and Earle Bailie, the latter to rill a vacancy. Technically, this was a compromise; but Robert Young considered it a victory, for he still had about half the stockholders and most of the directors in his camp.*Last week in Cleveland the new board re-elected Mr. Young's C. & O. management, including President George Doswell...
Suddenly, over the rill which the two had just passed, came the sound of galloping hoofs, and with it a courier, out of breath and panting on his well-accoutred charger. He had ridden miles, haste-post-haste, to catch the wanderers. He had news. Good news: the Queen would see them; she would help them! Come back to Cordoba. The Queen would sell her jewels that the traveller and his companion might have a fleet to seek a Western passage to the Indies and the far-flung realms of the East...
Cinder tracks, rock and rill beckon this afternoon as Varsity and Freshmen cross country candidates report to coaches and managers at 3:15 o'clock at the Dillon Field House. Coach Jaakko Mikkola will start what he hopes to be another successful cross country season with a short talk in the upstairs lounge...
...wish to submit a strong protest against the dilatory manner in which the fellow supposed to rill the column, Miscellany, is attending to his duties...
...reads about the "soldiers of the Legion" who "lay dying in Algiers," and then he turns to Charles Lamb's "Dissertation on Roast Pig." How many thousands of youngsters have been fired by Webster's "Supposed Speech of John Adams" and how many have laughed over Hawthorne's "Rill from the Town Pump...