Word: holing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Henry Bryant Bigelow. Bigelow, Professor of Zoology, introduced oceanography to the University together with Alexander Agassiz and founded the Wood Hole Oceanographic Institute for study of marine life, Undoubtedly the world's greatest expert on jellyfish about which he once wrote a monograph, Bigelow was especially able at getting around the multi-syllabled terminology of oceanography and explaining the science in homespun style...
Trouble on the Turn. On the first turn a big lumbering colt named Balkan slithered off to his right, carrying Middleground and C. V. Whitney's Mr. Trouble outside with him. That left a hole on the rail wide enough for a cavalry charge, and Eddie Arcaro, who had not planned to go to the front so early, gave Hill Prince the gun. By the time they straightened away on the backstretch, the Prince had the race in his pocket...
...evening came it was evident that he would be down in the well a long time. Encased in his oil drum, he filled the bottorn of the hole; it was virtually impossible to dig beneath him. For a while he tried to dig himself out. But finally, dirty and aching with fatigue, he gave...
Fire. His wife arrived and peered down the hole in fright. He reassured her. But the police sent for a doctor and a priest. Oxygen was piped down the hole. Big floodlights were brought in; they threw a harsh, garish light over the scene and heated the air until the toiling cops were wet with sweat. At 8:30 there was a terrible interruption. A lighted cigarette was lowered down the well in a tin can; a few minutes after it reached the bottom there was an explosion-apparently caused by oxygen and seeping gasoline fumes. Fire filled the well...
Death. The doctor made five trips into the hole to give the trapped man stimulants, and a transfusion of plasma. Warm milk was lowered to him. He sipped at it listlessly. After daylight, his wife knelt at the mouth of the well and dropped religious medals into the excavation; she rose with her face white, her hands fumbling with her rosary. A policeman called, "How are you feeling, Dom?" The well-digger replied quietly, "I am going...