Word: fell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Haven, Conn., October 16.--Charles Nash Blunt of Port Huron, Mich., a freshman at Yale, was severely injured last night when he fell four stories onto a concrete walk in front of Fayerweather Dormitory here last night. He was still on the danger list in a hospital today...
Blunt was climbing along a narrow window ledge from one room to another when he lost his balance and fell. He hit on his side and sustained a broken elbow, a fractured leg, and serious internal injuries...
...transplanted and pricked with pins to make them wriggle. Showers of fire, bubbling pitch, blood-stained harpies are industriously pitch-forked together for the discomfiture of most of the prominent sinners of History. It is all supposed to be the dream of a very wicked business man who fell asleep over a copy of Dante. Except for sinners who have the misfortune to be selfconscious, the film is respectfully recommended...
Harvard rejoiced in Quarterback Cheek, in Backs Zarakov and Gehrke, as she fell upon Virginia, 14 to 0. Cheek is a line-knifer; Zarakov an artful, eel-hipped dodger; Gehrke's punts sail...
...yelled as, within the ring, Mickey Walker, world's welterweight champion, began to ram his fists against the body and flaming head of Bobby Barrett, challenger. After swinging heavily with his right once or twice, Barrett sank to the floor before Walker's battering. Staggering up, he fell again and again-five times in the first round, Walker tearing in with Dempsey-like speed and solidity whenever unlucky Barrett achieved a perpendicular posture. Gritty Barrett retained consciousness until the sixth round. Then, after grovelling for the count of nine, he dragged himself erect a final time, only...