Word: backed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bins. Warehouses held stacks of dried and salted codfish, the season's catch, ready to be shipped for profit-to buy calico, yarn, sweaters, boots. Men prophesied a serene winter. Then the fish-giving sea howled unwontedly. A great swoop of water slapped against the shore. It fell back, slapped up again and again. Rent, twisted, smashed, into flotsam went wharves, stores, homes, people. Devastation: more than a score killed and drowned; hundreds maimed and mauled; 500 homes, 100 fishing boats and 26 schooners smashed; 70 miles of coast stripped of wharves and fishing gear. At sea the quake...
...next two hours, and without burdening your own mind other than opening the door of its receiving tube, you will learn the solution of every trick just before the gun is shot in front of you, or the paper broken on the stage. The blending of the "Behind his back"s, "False slide"s, "Easee, easee"s, "Get e idear"s, gives you a comfortable feeling of your own superiority...
This specimen was the basis for the first scientific description of the genus gorilla on record. Dr. Wyman delivered a speech describing the gorilla to the Boston Society of Natural History. As time went on, and other specimens were discovered, they were sent back to museums on the continent of Europe and to England, as well as to the United States...
...bruising tackling and omnipresence, while it was only the mighty kicks of the latter that kept the Worcester boys at bay so successfully. They are a couple of players whom any coach could use. Holy Cross too had some fine men on the field, notably O'Connell, the Sophomore back who ran eighty-odd yards from a kick-off here in the Stadium a week or so ago. He is shifty, fast and a very hard runner. The chances are that Harvard fans will hear more from Mr. O'Connell before he finishes his career at Holy Cross...
...names will probably be taken into consideration when, the squad chooses its leader for next season are J.H. Gildea '31, center; V. M. Harding, Jr. '31, 'stellar end who is eligible, although it is doubtful whether he will be able to play football again; A. W. Huguley, Jr.'31, back; R. S. Ogden '31, end; C. F. Richards '31, center; B. H. Ticknor '31, center; W. D. Ticknor, Jr. '31, guard and J. N. Trainer, Jr. '31, guard...