Word: ben
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...started to give oxygen to a woman and discovered she was his wife. She died while he worked over her. Through the next day, persons who had escaped and many rescuers who had gone home, thinking themselves safe suddenly collapsed. They were taken to hospitals. Many of them died. Ben Jones, professional football player, only slightly gassed in the Clinic, drove home, 150 miles to Grove City, Pa., became ill 24 hours later and died...
...shot at 44.5 1-2, the hammer at 165.2 1-2, (breaking a record of 25 years' standing), the discus at 135.7 1-4 and the pole vault at 13.4. Furthermore, two other Yale vaulters cleared 12.5, and its best high hurdler was a scant three yards behind Ben Hedges, the great Princeton captain, in 15s. Therefore it requires no expert to appreciate the magnitude of the task confronting the Harvard athletes at New Haven tomorrow...
...stories, simpler in design, are quite as effective. There Are Smiles records the encounters of a smart young thing in her smart new roadster with Ben Collins, traffic policeman. He chides her for reckless driving; she smiles, gives him a lift to his home in the Bronx. In conversational bicker, pleasantly casual, she touches upon the man her father wants her to marry; he warns her to drive carefully "for that guy's sake"-and for his. Next morning the cop's newspaper tells of her- death in a motor accident. Says the cop to himself...
Next noon the Prime Minister consented to another trial, and started to read a short greeting, timed to end just as Big Ben commenced to strike. All went well until Mr. Baldwin lost his place in reading, paused awkwardly, and upon resuming did not get to the end of his remarks before Big Ben's 132-tons began to reverberate...
...third noon, a gust of wind blew away the Prime Minister's manuscript, and he not only chased after it but was stooping with his back to the camera when "Big Ben" began again, "Clang . . . clang . . . clang...