Word: caught
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wreckage of the United Airlines' DC-6 which caught fire and crashed in Utah's Bryce Canyon a fortnight ago gave up its first clue last week. Investigators discovered that the plane's magnesium parachute flares had burned, guessed that they were responsible for the fierceness of the flames. No one knew yet how the fire started. But the Civil Aeronautics Board ruled that flares-designed to be dropped for night emergency landings and carried at a point where the wing joins the fuselage-must be removed from all DC-6 planes...
Quarterback Naps Bell was cited by Ludendorf for his successful bits of gridiron strategy, while Mr. X in a series of sneak attacks, caught the CRIMSON's "D" team napping...
...recovered fumble and Jack Comeford's 60-yard touchdown pass to substitute end Gordy Lyle, gave the Crimson a 19 to 14 victory. Lyle, who came racing onto the field for the final offensive play of the game, caught the ball on the Princeton 20 and outran two defenders to score. Bob Perina, now with the Brooklyn Dogers, had led the highly favored visitors to a 14 to 0 lead at the half with a crushing passing attack...
make it. The crowd caught on. They shouted in unison for Messrs. Moffie, Adams, and Pierce...
...Meanwhile, the police captains are planning to crack down on illegal parking in the Harvard Square area, and as the Council itself has said: "Once they crack down, it will not be safe to leave a car on the street." If in the next few weeks, car owners are caught without parking space in the midst of a vast enforcement campaign, the blame will rest on student Council negligence...