Word: helmets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crossed it from east to west with only native porters for company, bagging big game for the Brooklyn Museum. This summer she too will be in Africa again, a quiet, gray-haired woman of slight physique serving science in African jungles. By day, on the march, she wears pith helmet, riding breeches, puttees; in the evening, has her boudoir tent pitched, changes to a silk negligee...
...Yucatan, he gauged the point on the sacred well's brink whence the victims were probably thrown. He hurled in logs of human weight to approximate the drowning spot. He brought in a dredge, and after removing tons of mud put on his rubber armor and steel helmet, dropped down and recovered 90 skeletons and a priceless collection of jade and golden images, now on view at the Peabody museum. The Carnegie Foundation will carry on his work...
...Grange, in a new yellow head-guard that shone like the helmet of Navarre, ran out on a field at Philadelphia before 65,000 people who had decided that he was a myth. Before the game was five minutes old Grange had run 60 yards for a touchdown; before it was over he had scored two more and made a fourth possible. He carried the ball 36 times, gained 363 yards. Score: Illinois 24, Pennsylvania...
Smart tricks are in the Dartmouth bag: a triple pass, executed with the polish of a fortune-teller's shuffle; criss-cross plays that befuddled the Harvard backs as much as if they had seen Halfback Oberlander (Dartmouth) take a rabbit out of his helmet. Dark fell before Harvard's last frantic forward pass slipped through groping butterfingers to the ground. Score: Dartmouth 32, Harvard...
...defence minister Gessler, the acting chancellor was on the platform, as well as President von Hindenburg, arraved in his old uniform resplendent with spiked helmet and imperial decorations, a great bowl has naturally gore an from the Socialists and Liberals at the impropriety of Republican offieia's participating in an anti-Republican demonstration...