Word: accidentals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The accident was caused by a flying squash ball which struck the basketball player squarely in the eye. Squash ball can travel as fast as 60 miles per hour. Murphy had decided to play a brief squash match before a late basketball practice session.
Handicap. In Toronto, Stuart H. Glass, suing for shoulder injuries resulting from an auto smashup, declared that the accident had added "10 to 15 strokes" to his golf game.
Last week, Dennis told her that he wanted to divorce his "wife back East" so that he could marry her. He kissed Betty goodbye, and flew to Cleveland to sell eleven little packets of stolen diamonds. There he was trapped, almost by accident. As he sat talking to a jeweler...
Labor members whooped and cheered. Bevan got his extra ?58 million. A fitting epilogue came from Bristol, where a workingman feeding sea gulls sneezed his false teeth into the harbor and was voted a new set by the local health officials. Generously, they held he had lost his teeth "by...
Dramamine's usefulness as a seasickness cure was discovered by accident. The drug was developed three years ago, by Chicago's G. D. Searle & Co., as a treatment for allergy. A year ago Drs. Gay and Carliner gave it to Mrs. Genevieve Ciesielski, of Baltimore, who suffered from...