Word: ill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fire had started when an ill-greased axle grew hot and hotter, began to spew forth sparks, and finally set the wooden sleeping car afire. Flames danced in the corridor, awakened the attendant. With a bound he leaped for the nearest stop-signal cord, found it already useless, burned through...
...Champaign, Ill, Jack Elder (no relative), Notre Dame halfback, tied the world's record for 75-yard dash...
...That Mr. Loree, ill, had been advised by physicians not to attend merger debates...
Haiti is a quiet island again now, a place in which infinitely indolent, ill-natured Negroes move slowly about their business. It would be incredible that wars had ever been waged under that muffling sky, as heavy as a curtain, that a splendid emperor had ruled the ruinous country- were it not for the fortress which still stands up on the hilltop, a black fist against the sky, the citadel of Christophe, the monument of a man born no one knows where, mysteriously named, a slave and a king, whose enemies defeated him. There is a rumor that Christophe with...
...races were run over a one and five-sixteenths mile course. The strokes had been ordered to keep the pace down, and as a consequence no exceptional times were turned in. Captain John Watts '28 did not figure in Saturday's race having been ill for several days. It is believed, however, that he will be back in action today. C. H. Pforzheimer '28, second University coxswain last year, was also idle due to illness...