Word: lone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...history of the beginnings of America and has made of it a ground upon which he creates an edifice compounded of the sufferings, victories and defeats of those early pioneers in the first days of industrialism in our country. This novel is the richly human story of a lone giant of the earth, George Rood, who wages a single-handed fight against a glass manufacturing enterprise which springs up across the road from his farm upon the discovery of natural gas in the vicinity...
Steady improvement in all departments has marked the Crimson playing since the disastrous 12-2 defeat at the hands of McGill ten days ago. The Harvard offensive, which at that time was characterized by ineffective lone sallies, has developed into a more unified effort on the part of all members of the line, while at the same time the defense has shown less tendency to be drawn out of position. The latter have, moreover, been more prompt in clearing the puck from in front of the nets following frustrated rushes. More consistency has also been evident on the part...
...eleven desperadoes who fled the Kansas State Penitentiary last May, nine had been killed or jailed when the tenth was trapped last week in a small house at Shawnee, Okla. He was Wilbur Underbill, known as the "Lone Wolf" and the "TriState Terror" for his killings and robberies in Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri...
Died. Louis Joseph Vance, 54, fictionist (The Lone Wolf, The Brass Bowl, The Road to EnDor, The Trembling Flame, two score more), bridge player; mysteriously; in his Manhattan apartment where he lived alone. His body was found on the floor with head and shoulders, badly burned, resting on a blazing armchair. Friends said he was a constant and careless smoker, burned holes in pajamas, dressing gowns, bedcovers. An autopsy revealed that he was intoxicated when he died. Like the late Robert W. Chambers (see below), Author Vance was a onetime artist, a prodigiously prolific writer, a scorner of "literature...
...lone rush by Benjamin Beale '34 early in the first frame resulted in the opening score of the evening, and left Harvard out in front at the end of the period, 1-0. Tech came back in the second with a power play to draw Kenneth C. Mittell '34 out of the goal long enough for Goodwin, Engineer right winger, to slip the puck into...