Word: gonged
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...When the gong rings for the final 135-pound bout in the University boxing championships, one of the contestants is sure to be P. E. Pieris, 1G, according to Coach Shevlin, who leclared he is a "natural born boxer...
...minute and a half before the closing gong of the first period, only the referee's whistle for an offside pass saved a score. The whistle didn't do any good, however, for Geran snatched the puck from the face-off and whipped it into...
...immense weights, one of 1000 pounds for the works, the other of 1500 pounds to strike the gong, fall 80 feet a week to keep the clock going. It is Mr. Walford's duty to lift them up again. Two boxes of sand at the end of steel cables constitute these weights...
...clock have been revealed and the cherished belief that it gained one minute a week regularly thus destroyed. Belated students hastening to nine o'clocks will derive small comfort if the clock indicates five minutes past--when it may possibly mean ten minutes past. And if perchance, its solemn gong should announce the arrival of ten o'clock at an unseemly, early hour, such as half-past nine, there will be wise and knowing shaking of heads instead of a healthy, jubilant rush for the doors. Ignorance has always been bliss for those who wish to live "happily ever after...
...through the second period Hill took a shot at the Tech cage which Massey deflected, but Beals bore down and drove the rebound home. This score served to break the ice, for the Crimson tallied twice in the next two minutes. Howe added another point just before the gong ended the period...