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...attacked by a herd of infuriated walruses. Two arrows had been shot into the leading bull by a member of the crew who hunted with Indian weapons. At the last moment Bartlett leaped to the bow and plunged and Eskino lance into the beast. The bull gave a great gasp and rolled over. The rest of the herd seemed to lost heart. With vengeful snorts they turned about and retreated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAPTAIN BARTLETT TO SPEAK TOMORROW NIGHT | 3/9/1927 | See Source »

...Greek athlete, Pheildippides, ran from the field of Marathon to Athens, to gasp, before falling dead, that the Greeks had been victorious over the Persians. Distance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Marathon | 6/14/1926 | See Source »

...hear the winding of aerial horns Thicken the air I gasp to breathe . . . I clinch twin burdens to my fading cinder breast...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Unknown Poet Pays Memorial Day Visit to Widener Leaving Wreath and Verses Under Sargent Canvas | 6/1/1926 | See Source »

...keeping pace with these modern conceptions of education. Rules, regulations, and restrictions would make impossible such an innovation with such a purpose as is envisaged by the creation of the Harvard Student Vagabond. The student Vagabonds are with us but their excuse for existence is quite different. We gasp when we think of the utter hopelessness of attempting at Cornell to stimulate visiting by students to courses in which they were not regularly enrolled. The professor's attendance record might be upset! --The Cornell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS-- | 2/20/1926 | See Source »

...papers to read the article that followed. In anticipation of the obituary, which they knew would be capably, decently written, they perhaps poured out their coffee or lit a cigaret, before their eyes again returned to the page. But the first sentence of General Rogers' obituary made them gasp and hold the paper closer; the second and third sentences made them cry out with laughter or scowl with well-bred disapproval, according to their temperaments. For the article under the headline began as follows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: OBITUARY | 12/28/1925 | See Source »

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