Word: ditches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...foot ditch currently disrupting traffic at the intersection of Cambridge and Broadway Streets, opposite Memorial Hall, will be gone by tonight. Workmen today were filling in the excavation after repairing a leak in a five-inch pipe which returns condensed water from the Rindge Tech heating system...
...having trouble with its radio compass. The pilot asked for a radio bearing, got it. It was three hours later when Kindley Air Force Base in Bermuda heard from it again. This time the message was terse, urgent: the B-29 was running out of gas and preparing to ditch. A few minutes later the Coast Guard cutter Bibb heard a faint SOS. After that, there was nothing...
...their start back in those days when a man wasn't considered "at the game" unless he was seen, bleary eyed, hanging on to a piece of the uprights. A CRIMSON of 1928 stated, "One goalpost was traced to the railroad station, half of the other drove into a ditch after it had failed to gore four citizens and a ticket post, and a member of the second post was checked for Straus Hall by the unfailing courtesy that is the Taft Hotel...
...morning Pete would get up, sigh a sigh based on considerable previous experience, and try to cross the lawn to reach the road to Laramie. He would aim towards the town, which he could plainly see shimmering in the distance, and plod along until his nose fell into a ditch. He would then back up about twenty feet until he could see this intervening obstacle, put his head down, and charge forward, jumping when he thought he had reached the trench. Pete's timing was bad. Most of the time he fell...
...times during the afternoon cheers rang out from the thousands who jammed nearby streets and bridges-fish had actually been caught. After rods & reels had been put away, President Auguste Minville of the Union des Pĕcheurs de Paris cheerfully admitted that "because the Seine is the drainage ditch of the world, all fish taken from it are blind, hunchbacked and constipated," in addition to being rather small. Total weight of the afternoon's catch (three minnows): 25 grams (less than an ounce...