Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...might "strike Britain in the back" in time of war. Churchill, attacking the Irish leader on the floor of the House of Commons, said that "dark forces of the Irish underworld tried to strike us in the back" during the World War "and there are still dark forces at work in Ireland now." In event of war, he added, Ireland might remain neutral or demand "the whole of Ireland" as a price for throwing in their lot with England...
George Washington had the first pump in Virginia, while all others were still using sweeps and windlasses. It was a wooden pump; and one day it just wooden pump. The Virginians got so dirty (I did not say thirsty) for lack of water, that George was figuring how to fix it, when a "Good Neighbor" from Hide-out Park happened along, named Fuddy-Duddy Rosey. Said he, "All that pumps ever need, is priming. So I will hire 10 million able-bodied men to carry water in cute little May-baskets, from the Privy, Treasury to prime...
...while still on the Law Faculty, the two professors helped to found the University of Chicago Law School. Both are Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and have been reporters for the American Law Institute...
...Heels from Chapel Hill have been generally considered national collegiate champions five times in the last seven years. North Carolina sends North a considerably weaker team than in past years, but they still stand on their record of not having been defeated since the Princeton match...
...student's eyes, tenderly washed his face, and solicitously told him to lie down. Ten minutes later, he had recovered his faculties. Weakly turning to his faithful lab buddy who hovered nearby, as a haunted look came over his smarting face, he muttered, "Bill, do you think I can still get a good yield...