Word: accidentals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year he made national news by, among other incidents, successfully presiding ove the Tercentenary, by breaking his collarbone in a skiing accident, and by opposing the original Court Bill.
Like the characters in Thornton Wilder's The Bridge of San Luis Rey, who were united through the device of having them tumble to their death together when an Andean bridge collapsed, the characters in The Seven Who Fled are strung together only through the accident of their common...
Last week, on the anniversary of the accident, tiny Chatsworth (pop. 1,100) held a memorial service in the Village Park. Seventy-nve-year-old Louis Joseph Haberkorn, one of the first to reach the scene, presided, introduced nine survivors. Service ended with singing of the ballad The Bridge Was...
The fatal line consisted of four creosoted poles, invisible in the dark since they were unlighted, strung with two naked copper wires.* The line was raised between nine-thirty and two the night of the accident in accordance with a permit for emergency service granted to Florida Power & Light Co...
*Will Rogers used to say that the best way to find an airport was to follow a high tension line. This accident was caused by a distribution wire, not high tension.