Word: died
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...left him there to die...
...State of Washington's Walla Walla penitentiary, Negro Jake Bird, 46, about to die on the gallows for the ax-murder of a Tacoma woman, won a 60-day reprieve by confessing that he could "clear up" 44 other murders...
...Changchun lay under virtual siege. The railway south of Peiping was broken again; transport planes from Peiping last week began to evacuate government civilian employees from Mukden and Changchun. But Nationalist troops hung on grimly inside the Manchurian corridor. Said their commander in Mukden: "We must hold Manchuria or die...
...Harvard, and ya gotta friend dat wants ta go ta Harvard. Only trouble is he's at Yale awready. Tell ya wet ya gotto do, or better yet, tell ya wot die guy C1878 done. He puts and ad in da CRIMSON, da number of da ad is C1878, an' he's askin' if anybody at Harvard wants ta go ta Yale...
...they are temperamentally total strangers. Studious Critic Daiches is chiefly interested in showing that if Stevenson had not been cut off in his prime, he would have parked his little scooter and become as profound and dignified as Sophocles and Shakespeare. Romantic Novelist Stevenson (a tubercular who was to die in Samoa at 43) was chiefly interested in enjoying the lively, glamorous places to which his scooter carried...