Word: spilling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mandarin Shan Tien. Kai Lung was brought to the Mandarin for judgment. "He raised his rebellious voice," remarked the prosecutor unpleasantly. "The usual remedy in such cases ... is strangulation." Everything was ready for the necktie-party, when Kai Lung, previously advised by the Golden Mouse, began to spill a Sheherazade to the noble Mandarin, his initial opus being The Story of Wong Ts'in and the Willow Plate Embellishment. By the time the story was ended it was, of course, too late in the day to execute Kai Lung-and so the days went on-in spite...
...Garcelon hurdle trophies, Thomas came in first over the high timbers, while Gordon won the low event. Captain Allen of the Freshman team, who led Gordon up to the last flight, looked like a winner, but lost his stride and tripped over the final hurdle, taking a bad spill. K. P. Smith and Terhune, followed Gordon over the finish...
...with the Khan of men at University Hall. I was perfectly frank with him. I do not intend to be bound by examinations and tests. This whole scheme of sampling information is preposterous. A man's knowledge is his own property and it is outrageous to expect him to spill it out in blue books for the benefit of any dolt-headed instructor. And besides, I am not going to leave any data here to help these hirelings of the Boston bankers, as Upton Sinclair so well puts it, start another Boston police strike...
...last few weeks, it is impossible to spread over a long time the final review necessary for the fingertip knowledge required in the Divisional Examinations. In the meantime, all other work, tests, reports, weekly quizzes, naturally suffers. The additional burden of daily work under such circumstances tends to spill the whole load...
...scant few inches. The 600-yard run was marred by a couple of falls at the beginning of the second lap, when W. Tibbetts, of Worcester, leading, with Thomas Campbell of the 1924 team a few feet behind, tripped on the corner, but got up just in time to spill Campbell, who was forced to hurdle him, landing in the mud at the side of the track. Campbell picked himself up and ran on, but was unable to make up the distance he had lost, and did not place...