Word: kick
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Francisco, Peter Breckenridge fractured several ribs in the following manner: He mounted his mule, set out for a ride. The mule stepped upon a nest of yellow jackets; the yellow jackets began to sting the mule, causing it to kick desperately. One of the kicks came in contact with a guy wire attached to a pole; the force of the kick made the pole fall down. A power wire strung on the pole fell on the mule, electrocuting it instantly; whereupon the mule fell over, landed on its rider, fractured the ribs of Peter Breckenridge...
...assets of $50,000.000, the common has a book value of $10 a share. If the assets increase 10% to $55,000,000, the book value of the common jumps, by "leverage," 50% to $15. In Wall Street, stocks with large leverage are spoken of as "having a kick to them...
...rather monotonous game between Eliot and Lowell House, the Elephants trounced their neighbors 15-0. A fumble and a blocked kick gave A. Nickerson, Eliot left end, the opportunity to score both touchdowns, and Ferry kicked the extra point. In the last part of the game, Eliot House scored a safety when West, playing right half back for Lowell, was dragged down behind his own goal line...
...gains and from scoring, in spite of the fact that every man on the Harvard team was outweighed by 15 pounds. On the offensive, however, the 150's found it impossible to make any gains through the heavy Huntington line, and it was only when a Huntington line, and kick was blocked and the ball recovered by the speedy end, Crocker, on the one-yard line, that the Harvard quarter-back, Dearborn, was able to put it over for a touchdown. The only other chance for a score failed when Corcoran, playing at left half back, succeeded in eluding...
Gummere of Harvard scored the first goal by a long kick from the middle of the field. The visitors kept the ball in Harvard's territory during the first quarter of the two 22-minute periods played. The rest of the game was played on Bridgewater territory. During the third period the visiting team staged a comeback scoring two goals within a few minutes. Harvard scored only one of three penalty kicks...