Word: moat
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Middle Ages besieged cities were surrounded by a wall, and the wall was surrounded by a moat. The sapper (or miner) dug under ground until he reached the foundations of the wall. Here he built a shelter by leaning beams against the wall to protect him while he undermined its foundations. As fast as he made a breach in the wall he propped it with beams to keep it from tumbling on him as he worked. Finally he set fire to the beams and fled, leaving the wall to cave in as the supports burned away...
...know yea-at 4 o'clock this afternoon the consummately stellar aggregation of unconquered CRIMSON ball chasers will meet the quivering, cringing, libeled humorists from the moat on Mt. Auburn Street in a game at ball on Soldiers Field, first turn to your left and across what was and is to be bridge Smoky George Phillips, fresh from his unparalleled triumph over the Eli heavers, will toss the sphere over the Eli heavers, will toss the sphere over the gutta perchas dinner service with the speed and accuracy of Linotype. Sparkling nut brown will gurgle and splash into the guatta...