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Word: ringed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Loyal people everywhere are requested to display the flag of the U. S." on Monday, Jan. 16. They are asked to ring their churchbells steadily for eight minutes at high noon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Flags, Bells | 1/16/1928 | See Source »

Queen, Victoria, granddaughter of Eng land's great Victoria, dislikes, in common with most Britishers, the bull fight. A sporting, "horsy" nation, they hate particularly to hear of horses blindfolded and torn to pieces in the ring. Marquez cried through the streets of London that bull fighting is not cruel. He proposed to prove it; to fight a bull in London; to show that speed, skill, sportsmanship which England worships are foundations of his trade. No horses would be disemboweled. Instead of killing the bull he would kiss it; tease the beast a little; stroke it; finally plant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Clean Sport | 1/16/1928 | See Source »

...superior was the team play of the Freshman poloists that the Artillery was able to score only once, that point coming in the third chukker when Storer scored on an individual dash down the right side of the riding ring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1931 POLOISTS DEFEAT FIFTY-FIRST BRIGADE | 1/9/1928 | See Source »

...these attempts dishearten. Set the mark higher, and ring the bell. For really, if a man, after three years study, cannot compose a clever theme of five words or less, the critics of higher education are to some extent justified...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NAUGHTY NOMENCLATURE | 1/9/1928 | See Source »

...World says flatly, "It is incredible that any people, not abject slaves under the rule of tyrants, will tolerate such infamies indefinitely. It this is what Prohibition means, then it is time to get rid of Prohibition." To the student of American history, this statement will have a familiar ring, but events seem to justify it. It was to the tune of a number of contemptuous cartoons that the lid dropped on Boston during the New Year's celebration, and the warning that chemists would be arrested if they gave analyses of alcoholic beverages, aroused even more adverse comet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "THE BOTTLE CRY OF FREEDOM" | 1/4/1928 | See Source »

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