Word: bending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nine miles outside of Moscow a local train, packed with commuters, halted at a switch-head before taking a spur track. Without warning another local swept round the bend and smashed full into the standing train's rear, plowed through almost its entire length. Wooden cars splintered like match boxes, dead and dying were strewn along the right-of-way. Peasants running up from the fields did their best to pull maimed bodies from the wreckage. They were laid on the parallel track while telegraph operators wired Moscow frantically for help. Suddenly a freight train, proudly burdened with Soviet goods...
Individual starting and occasional excellent passing characterized the victory gained over a Milton Academy five by the Harvard Freshman basketball team yesterday. Coach Rufus Bend's men topped their schoolboy opponents by steady scoring, finishing with 32 points to their opponents...
...Mooney's record, and I always stand by the record. Let's hope that justice is waiting." In lighter vein he deplored missing the Kid Chocolate-Tony Canzoneri fight, an inconvenience which he palliated by going to the Southern California-Notre Dame football game at South Bend, Ind. (see p. 23). His brief for Prisoner Mooney, he prepared aboard the Overland Limited between Chicago and San Francisco...
With the most imposing three-season record in football history-25 victories, one tie, no defeats-at South Bend. Ind., in the new brick stadium dedicated to late great Coach Knute Kenneth Rockne (see p. 40), Notre Dame played the team that was the last to beat it, husky, well-trained Southern California. In the second period, Notre Dame made its first touchdown. After a 55-yd. march, Fullback Joe Banas leaped over the scrimmage and across the goal line. In the second half, Notre Dame received the kickoff and scored again, in four plays. This time, Halfback Marchmont Schwartz...
...Ponters ? W. H. Carothers, F. B. Downing, Ira Williams ? generously gave most of the credit to a 53-year-old Catholic priest, Rev. Julius Arthur Nieuwland, C.S.C., of Notre Dame University. Father Nieuwland, born a Belgian, at tended Notre Dame and later settled down in South Bend to a life of avowed poverty and chemical research. In 1906 he passed some acetylene into a copper salt mixture and obtained therefrom a strange and terrific stench...