Word: fell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will play the Worcester Academy booters in their fourth game of the season. The 1930 has to its credit wins over Dean Academy, and Tabor Academy, and have lost to Andover. The Worcester team has a reputation for strength, and a hard fight is expected. Last year the Freshmen fell before the Worcester school boys, who played a rough rushing game from whistle to whistle...
...Tokyo, one Giichi Kitazawa, confectioner, sat brooding; glowered across the table at his sweetheart. Disappointed in love, he swallowed large quantities of eggs, curry, rice; drank heartily of sake-whisky; fell unconscious, died...
...aboard the collier Anthony O. Boyle of Quincy, Mass., one Martin Ward crawled into his forecastle bunk and fell asleep. From the bunk above Seaman Ward's issued the stertorous breathing of a 250-lb. shipmate, also slumbering. Waves lapped and buffeted the collier's hull. Timbers creaked. Into the monotonous orchestration of the forecastle's night sounds crept a small cracking note, a rip, a split, a smothered crash. Ward awoke, in intense pain. His brain flashed: "Shipwreck! Drowning:!" Then a terrible weight lifted as the 250-pound shipmate removed his person and his bunk from...
Coach Alonzo Stagg of Chicago reproduces in moleskin the tactics of the late Prussian army; when one line falls he sends up another. To people in the stands at Philadelphia it seemed that every substitute linesman was bigger than the last. But where one had fallen the next fell; Penn, with a swift, irreverent back named Paster Fields, smashed through...
Yale's vaunted football machine, heralded after the Dartmouth game as the probable Eastern champion, and floating ever since in the clouds of adulation, fell last Saturday with a great disillusioning bump, before a great Brown eleven by a score...