Word: got
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...blackamoor chief who was leading 700 rowdy followers to sack Grande Riviere. Hanneken, then a sergeant, took a force of 21 men through the witching night. They rushed the camp, killed Charlemagne and nine of his ruffians, escaped to cover. The feat broke the backbone of Haitian banditry. Hanneken got the Congressional Medal of Honor...
...Fitzgerald discovered that an object changes its shape somewhat, according to its position or movement. Albert Einstein proved that objects change with time, that time itself is not a definite thing. It is different according to the viewpoint. Your hour is not my hour. . . . The scientists, in short, got a long way from the short man rapidly walking down a broad street. They had noted details. The short man was perhaps 5 ft. 4 in. tall; he weighed 145 Ibs.; wore unpolished black leather half-shoes, black lisle socks, a grey tweed suit, a taupe-colored felt hat pulled down...
...punching and slashing at Tommy Gibbons. Sweat glistened on the faces of the shirt-sleeved crowd. One man fainted. It was the heat. Another man suddenly had a bleeding nose. Tommy Gibbons felt weak and sick after a while. He lost the fight and made no money. Dempsey got $300,000. Mayor Jim Johnson of Shelby, chief backer, lost $150,000. That was probably Tommy Gibbons most famous fight...
...hard twelfth round at the Polo Grounds, Manhattan, Gene Tunney knocked Tommy Gibbons out. That was Tommy Gibbons' last big fight, but he got well paid for it, and he had been well paid for many another fight...
This time it was about Tycoon Edward Stephen Harkness, whose recent gift of $13,000,000 has made possible at Harvard an adaptation of the Oxford "inner, college" idea (TIME, Jan. 7). Sneered the Lampoon: "Now that Harkness has shelled a sufficient number of berries we have got to put on our glad rags and make him an A. M. or a LL. D., the way we did Baker [Tycoon George Fisher Baker built Harvard's Business School in 1924, was given a kudo Ph. D.]. Becoming a Ph. D. is the same kind of business as getting yourself created...