Word: rans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rights of Poverty. Sister Marie, a nun of St. Quentin, having sworn poverty ? can she collect damages? A motorist ran her down, fractured her foot, offered to pay medical expenses but said she could not collect an indemnity. A French court decreed she could, and awarded 30,000 francs. "Because a life is given to the unfortunate is no reason for considering that that life is without value," said the Court...
...Horween saved by a superhuman effort, R. T. Fisher '12, retiring coach says: "During this march Arnold Horween appeared badly used up and just as we were preparing to send in a fresh man to take his place he suddenly burst through the center of the Oregon line and ran 25 yards before being downed. It was the most exciting play of the game...
...first produced in London. That stately metropolis promptly seized upon it and paid thousands of pounds for many months for the privilege of tingling to its grisly thrills. Then it was produced in Boston by a stock company, and so delighted that only slightly less stately community that it ran for six weeks against all the policies of the stock troupe. With these glistening references it comes to Manhattan and turns out to be a very ordinary mystery play with a mixture of burlesque...
...Central Terminal to his limousine, where a motorcycle corps took up the task of guarding his throat. Santa Lucia! If the Camorra wanted a man, they usually got him. And was Gigli, "the World's Greatest Tenor," to be sacrificed to the knife of some berserk Black Hander? So ran the talk in Gigli's apartment, where he was reunited to his wife and children...
...University fencers ran up a heavy margin of foils victories over the Princeton and Pennsylvania swordsmen, in a triangular meeting held in Philadelphia last Saturday, but finished third in the epee bouts. In the foils matches the Crimson squad scored 15 wins, with Pennsylvania's ten victories taking second place, and the Tiger foilsmen trailing both teams with only two decisions...