Word: fated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many misfortunes have fallen of late years among Yale athletics that it seems almost as if the hand of Fate was unfairly active in New Haven. The accident which O'Hearn suffered on Saturday is a heavy blow both to the football team and to the man himself. Yale has pinned high hopes upon this famous athlete, and the latter has doubtless been looking to his last season of football as an opportunity to realize to its full extent his usual ability. Members of the University who have seen his fine sportsmanship on the Yale university teams for two years...
...committed suicide by leaping out of the window. The event caused little stir.. Mrs. Holly and Christopher Lane were married and soon departed to California, with Amy May, Annabelle Lee (re-eyed) and her new husband, Mr. Romeo, leaving only Papa Jonas to muse philosophically on the fate of Mr. Aristotle, thus: "He did not move as I meant him to and he ended badly . . . yet he knew what it was to suffer and to love. I envy him his boldness, for it was not expected...
...miles and was skimming along beside the curb before it crashed into the pole, smashing the fenders and tearing off the wheels and turning completely over. It was immediately righted by the large crowd of students that had gathered, and for a time there was considerable anxiety for the fate of the lost driver until he appeared a few minutes later of claim...
...projected railroad from Boston to Albany was declared to be "as useless as a railroad from Boston to the Moon". In 1833 a Connecticut Yankee thanked C. d that he lived in a country so hilly that it was impossible to build railroad there; but, as fate would have it, he lived to see tracks pass within four feet of his house. In 1834 the Boston & Worcester Railroad was obliged to advertise that, contrary to the previous practice of stage coaches, the new railroad trains would not call for passengers at their homes, but that "seats are provided...
With the acreage of sporting news in the daily paper steadily increasing, the fate of a college football team seems to rest not so much in the hands of the college or of the team itself as upon the point of the sporting editor's pen. The name of any of the larger universities attached to an item of news greatly enhances its market value, and sport writers must live. Hence the very health of a football player becomes a public commodity...