Word: crash
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suddenly killed Cock Robin? "I did!" cried Minnesota.* "I marked him sure. I wounded him sore." Robin Red Grange, most brilliant of backs, took the field at Minneapolis with his fellow lllini and at once raced off around end for a touchdown. He started other races, but Minnesota ends crashed him, Minnesota secondary defense heaped upon him. In the second period, he was subdued. In the third, his arm hung limp, he left the field for the season. Meanwhile, Minnesota's offense plunged, pounded, plowed. Illinois sank back to third in the Conference standing. Score: Minne- sota 20, Illinois...
...poetry of bell effects has always appealed to composers for the piano. In Borodin's Au Couvent, a bell tolls for 18 measures, silvery, gentle, relentless; Debussy composed an intricately sophisticated pattern for bells in his Japanese Temple Gongs; stern bells crash and roll in Tschaikowsky's 1812 Overture; sleigh bells jingle like hard, gay laughter in his Troika (Op. 37, No. 11); bells happily pious tinkle in the Celeste of Korngold's Die Tote Stadt; the profound and icy-hearted Kremlin bell booms in Rachmaninoff's Prelude (Op. 3, No. 2). Many are the other...
...crash of Empires and the falling of crowns, which seemed a logical result of the War, Turkey was a main link in the concatenations of stupendous events. For better or for worse, Turkey became a republic, a midget of a state compared to its former self; all the old panoplies of government were thrown overboard. The Sultan-Calif fled for his life. A new Calif arose; but the Sultanate was ground to dust by the puissant heel of Democracy. It was to be only a matter of time before the sole of the same foot was to crush the Califate...
...like speed and solidity whenever unlucky Barrett achieved a perpendicular posture. Gritty Barrett retained consciousness until the sixth round. Then, after grovelling for the count of nine, he dragged himself erect a final time, only to behold Walker racing toward him, muscles bunched, face set in the "killer" look. Crash-indubitably, the welterweight champion of the world was still Mickey Walker...
...precise nature of the causes of the crash were obscure. A warrant for his arrest on a charge of fraud was, however, issued; but the bird had flown, allegedly with securities of high value. The Austrian State said that if he deposited $4,200,000, he could return unmolested...