Word: fall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Winter mountain climbing is a new idea for the club, but for 15 years they have been organizing weekly climbs during the spring and fall. When the four members started out on Huntington's Ravine, which is located on Mount Washington, they were turned back by danger of avalanches caused by the loose ice and snow...
Last week the 53rd annual Cruft's was leld in Islington without mild little Show man Cruft, who died last fall at the age of 86. Uninvited but prominently present was a group of unemployed, who paraded car rying banners which read: "The dogs are O. K. - judge our condition." Also on hand, "to carry on the show on the lines he want ed," was 66-year-old Widow Cruft, who like her late husband, keeps...
...Champs Elysees in Paris. The usual crowd was all around him, straining against a high wind. It was June, and the trees were gay and green with their new foliage-except for one huge, dying chestnut tree. A sudden gust swept against it. It tottered, cracked, started to fall. Von Horvath, preoccupied, did not hear the people scream as he walked into its shadow. The dead tree crushed him dead, and Odon von Horvath had his wish...
With the score standing 12 to 9 against the Crimson, it was up to Boston to make a fall in order to clinch the match. He was well on the way toward his objective when the trick knee of footballer Joe Bartolf gave was and made it necessary for him to for-felt his match for the full five points given with a fall. Bartolf gamely argued with his coach to let him continue, but he was not allowed...
...matches before the final, heavy-weight bout, Bill Daughaday at 165 had practically brought the stands to their feet with a thrilling near fall in the last 5 seconds of his match. However, Lenox Muldoon, his opponent, managed to keep Bill from pinning him until after the horn called a stop to the contest...