Word: tilled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ferocious Fimbres recently located the Apaches?a small tribe said to number only 25?on an almost inaccessible fortified plateau, high in the Sierra Madre Mountains. "This time they cannot escape!" Fimbres exulted last week. "Blood of God's Mother, I have waited three years ! It may take till spring to starve them out, but we shall kill all who are up there except one little boy?...
...Germany, I noticed that the German wheelmen carried a whip in a receptacle attached to the handlebars. Upon inquiry, it was for dogs. I carried no whip, for l found a more excellent way. When chased by infuriated dogs, which happened three or four times every day, I waited till the monster got close. Then leaning over. I spit in his eye, becoming with practice uncannily accurate. The animal invariably retired. It wasn't the heat, it was the humidity...
...Charles Palmerston Anderson. On the 16th ballot the secretary declared Chicago's Anderson had received the necessary 68 votes and two over. Ninety-three* Episcopal voices joined in a solemn doxology. Charles Palmerston Anderson, 65, was born in Kemptville, Ontario, did not move to the U. S. till 1891. In 1900 he was elected Bishop Coadjutor of Chicago and became Bishop of the diocese in 1905 on the death of Bishop William Edward McLaren. Bishop Anderson is high-church, a member of the Anglo-Catholic faction. He will serve two years...
Members of Indiana's Anti-Shave Club, wearing beards till their team had won a game, saw a little back named George Ross score 14 points in the last ten minutes. Then the Club swarmed onto the field waving shaving mugs, brushes. Indiana 19, Northwestern...
Grocer Feldman then emptied his till, gave the contents ($45) to the Negro, who disappeared into the night. Later Grocer Feldman went to the police. "It was the same man," he declared, "and the same pistol...