Word: deaths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...drawn from the report of the I. C. A. A. A. A. on the mortality of Harvard athletes resulting from their years of organized sports during the period 1870 to 1905 is the curious parallelism with which intelligent supervision of University athletics has kept pace with the decreasing death rate. While Harvard, compared with other colleges, has an extremely high mortality for the thirty-five years during which statistics were available, the important point is the rapidity with which it has been lowered with the passing of each decade. Twenty years before the turn of the century, the Harvard athlete...
...hunting. He liked women, but loved dogs. He had mistresses in his younger days, and was twice married, purely as a matter of business. Suspicious, he had an elaborate system of spies. Relentless, he hung traitors or put them in iron cages. Personally brave, he was terribly afraid of death...
Confused and annoyed was "Herex" to learn next day that should dangerous Badman Maggio return to Sicily, it would be in a horizontal position. He had been murdered two months before. "Herex" itself had played up his death story...
...Since the death of Dr. William Westley Guth, last April. Dr. Clarence Paul McClelland, President of Illinois Women's College (Jacksonville), was being considered last week as next president of Goucher...
...hunter found Nelson 25 miles east of Cleveland near Chagrin Falls, where the Alleghenies give their last, low roll towards the Great Plains. He had jumped just before crashing. The jump apparently stunned him. The half-open folds of his parachute quilted him too thinly. Unconscious, he froze to death, hard by the busy Cleveland to Pittsburgh motor road, the tenth mail flyer to die on the New York-Cleveland route...