Word: eleven
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Crime & Punishment. There is an eleven-year gap in the legend-until 1836, when a tall stranger with a flowing beard and erect military bearing rode into the Siberian outpost of Krasnoufimsk on a white horse. He carried his right hand on his hip in the manner of the late Czar; he spoke fluent French and a kind of Russian that was half church-Slavic, half Latin; he carried an icon with the initials A.I. The peasants began to wonder if this might not be Alexander the Blessed. When the stranger, who gave his name as Fyodor Kuzmich but could...
Just as the Splendid Splinter used to spit at 30,000 fans while rounding third base. Clay mocked Floyd Patterson and the American boxing public by toying with the smaller, slower, weaker opponent for eleven-and-a-half rounds until the merciful referee stopped the show at 2:13 of the 12th...
...perennial touch football classic between the Yale Daily News and the Harvard Crimson will unfold at 11 a.m. today on the "Old Campus Field" when the Harvard eleven, which has been undefeated in every major contest so far, opens with a draw sweep off left tackle followed by a quarterback option leading to a double reverse around the right end, sending two receivers long down field and two linebackers deep into Yale territory, to put the Crimeds in a key position for the crucial fourth down against the Yalies...
Quarterback Watts Humphrey has had his on and off days. He set a new Yale League record of 16 completions against Dartmouth, but was only one for eleven in the first half against Princeton. If Humphrey plays well, the Yale offense can be very hard to stop. He is a decent runner and runs the option well...
...carpetbag in 1866 and moved on to Mobile as Federal Assessor of Internal Revenue. In 1872 he patented a design for a railroad sleeping car (consisting of a series of stateroomlike compartments) and sailed for Europe. There he leased his cars to rail lines in half a dozen countries. Eleven years later he returned to the U.S., several times a millionaire, to compete with George Pullman for the American market. Pull man won, and Mann went bankrupt. But not for long. By 1891 he had acquired full control of Town Topics from his young brother Eugene...