Word: shallows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...several days, the best minds of Ihlamour bent to the task of extracting Yusuf's duck. Scheme A was to lower a large shallow bucket down the well in the hope that the duck would swim into it. Several times the duck did so, but always flopped out before the bucket could be hauled to the surface. Scheme B was to tie fish lines to hard indigestible crusts of bread in the hope that Yusuf's duck would swallow line and crust, allow himself to be hauled to the surface. Yusuf's duck did not. Scheme...
...only bootlegger for there are many of the tribe who make quite a comfortable living out of the Harvard boys few of whom know good liquor from bad and don't care a great deal what they get so long as it inspires them to deep and shallow thinking. The cop get his man. How did he get him? Listen to the shameful story. He telephoned to the bootlegger, representing himself to be a Harvard student and ordered two quarts of whiskey and two quarts of gin, to be delivered at one of the college dormitories. The bootlegger delivered...
...modern golf ball, smaller than a modern baseball-a Turk's head of plaited rubber strips sewn in a membrane of goat-skin-flew so hard that it hurt bare hands. The players took to wearing gloves, then invented and strapped to their throwing wrists a long shallow wicker basket (called cesta). hooked like a giant's fingernail. The length of the throwing arc added speed to the little ball, heightened the game's excitement, sent it back across the ocean with other Spanish improvements to Mexico City, where it ranks next to bullfighting; to Havana, where...