Word: basketfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Italian plot, the hero is an ancient and defunct Roman who has fallen out of the basket which was hoisting him to Heaven after his so-jurn in Purgatory; in the other he is a Russian from Revere,--Dimitri Trestara Gudgodka...
...addition to the regular "home and home" contests with Yale and Dartmouth, which have been the feature of previous years' schedules, the Crimson basket men will encounter each of the other teams in the Intercollegiate Basketball League, with the exception of Princeton, that is, Cornell, Columbia, and Pennsylvania. Another new opponent this year will be Syracuse. Many of the teams which were on last year's schedule have been booked again for this season, and there will no doubt be many interesting home games with such teams as Amherst, Brown, Williams, and Worcester Tech...
Seven Martin bombers at an altitude of 3,000 feet attacked the Virginia with 1,100-lb. bombs. Eleven missiles were dropped. All except two fell within 300 feet of the ship. One, the fourth, made a direct hit, sweeping away the basket mast and all three funnels. Within half an hour from the time the first bomb was dropped the Virginia turned turtle and went down, stern first. It was then apparent that severe damage had been done within the hull...
President Harding and his party approached by way of the Panhandle. At Wrangell, in the Panhandle, once a trading post of the Hudson Bay Co., the party was greeted by " thousands of people." The populace presented Mr. and Mrs. Harding with a basket of super-strawberries and a bunch of mammoth peonies. Here, amid totum poles and other emblems of the red men, the President declared that he had come as an " apostle of understanding. That is what the world and the nation most need." Following him the three Secretaries in the party, Work, Wallace and Hoover, also spoke...
...Army and Navy still had six craft in the air. By July 6 all but three had come down, Ralph Upson piloting the Detroit having had the most dangerous experience, when his gas bag split at 5,800 feet and a descent had to be made in the basket, supported by a parachute. Lieutenant Robert Olmstead, in charge of an Army balloon, landed in New York State with apparently the best record of 500 miles...