Word: caving
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sever instead showed himself a true and thrifty son of his college by supporting "a Cambridge institution". With Appleby Hollishemer he utilized the ticket allowing him to be bored free of charge at the cave of the riots. He got his nothing's worth, for he was not even thrilled by the giant tapestry representing George Washington on parade, --right in front of Radcliffe, the old flirt! Emerson Sever noticed that there were no idle Harvard students looking...
Near Woodruff, S. C., workmen with picks, shovels and dynamite worked day and night in shifts, for 110 hours (four days, 14 hrs.), to cut through the roof of a creekside cave on the farm of one Jonas W. Swink. Mournful howls, deep in the earth, spurred their efforts. Crowds gathered. On the fourth day, they dug out the body of a large red fox bearing gashes of a fatal battle. They hung the fox on a tree. Before dawn of the fifth day, which chanced to be the second anniversary of the exhumation of Miner Floyd Collins who died...
...local correspondent of the Associated Press explained why the animals were found apart in the cave: "Indications are that the fox, mortally wounded . . . drug himself near the mouth of the cave before dying...
...Adjourned until Feb. 8, after hearing the King's speech proroguing Parliament read by Viscount Cave, the Lord High Chancellor and Speaker of the House of Lords. For the first time in history His Majesty's speech referred to "my Ministers from the Dominions" instead of "my Ministers," thus confirming the principle laid down at the Imperial Conference (TIME, Nov. 1 et seq.) that the mother country and the Dominions are on a completely equivalent mutual status...
...Scroll of history is replete with stories that stir the heart and fire the naggination. Sagas of the rise and fall of nations like the total annihilation of Carthage in a single month, or the great movement that started from the cave of Vallombrosa to carry out its dream and build, after ten centuries, the world-wide Spanish Empire, are truly Homeric in their subject matter. But few tales are more magnificent than that of the phenix of a free united Italy, rising from the ashes of the fires of revolution that had swept the peninsula so long...