Word: scraping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...held the Alamo against Santa Anna's overwhelming force until every one of them, and 500 Mexicans, were dead. The Mexicans marched on, captured Fannin's contingent, massacred them to a man. At that most settlers began scrambling pell-mell to the north in the famed "Runaway Scrape," But the blood of 800 of them was up now, and when Sam Houston yelled, "Remember the Alamo!" they rallied to him. Outside the present city of Houston, near where Buffalo Bayou meets the San Jacinto River, they took Santa Anna's army of 1,600 by surprise...
...face of such a demand for its product and in view of the unique opportunities Harvard has developed since 1909, even though it is admitted that prosperity is still sulking on the wrong side of the corner, is defensible only on the grounds of absolute inability to scrape up the necessary funds...
...suppose that the old physician was set to brooding on the sorrows of the aged poor by the fact that his own savings were swept away by Depression and, instead of enjoying the well-earned ease and security which he had expected, he was forced at 60-odd to scrape a living as a real-estate salesman. In these circumstances Dr. Townsend conceived his Plan to pay every citizen over 60 a Government pension of $200 per month for life. Good & Grey. Dr. Townsend appeared on the national scene some two years ago as a gaunt, grey, gentle...
Lucian Fletcher was born in 1824 at Lynchburg, Va., where he passed a harum-scarum life which came to its first climax when he became involved in a disgraceful shooting scrape. To save his skin, his father, a well-to do planter, packed Son Lucian off over the Blue Ridge into what is now West Virginia. And to care for this handsome but troublesome son, Planter Fletcher sent along two slaves, Arch and Mary...
...know he is the second, but we went on to ask him what time he made the crossing. "Oh, all i did was scrape off the muffler," he replied, reminding us of Johnny Walker and his "still going strong...