Word: reapers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coach Samborski of the Freshman baseball squad clothed himself in the vestments of the Grim Reaper again yesterday in announcing the men he will take on the spring trip. Those who will not make the trip are not to consider themselves as cut and are expected to report for practice as usual...
...read a list of the twelve foremost dead inventors in U. S. history, as chosen by the ballots of a secret committee. The twelve: Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Alva Edison, Robert Fulton, Charles Goodyear (vulcanized rubber), Charles Martin Hall (commercial aluminum), Elias Howe (sewing machine), Cyrus Hall McCormick (reaper), Ottmar Mergenthaler (linotype), Samuel Finley Breese Morse, George Westinghouse, Wilbur Wright, Eli Whitney...
...dead colleague. But Congress was straining for adjournment by week's end, and the conventional amenities were postponed for nearly three hours by routine business. Then Massachusetts' Treadway arose to present a resolution of adjournment. "Mr. Speaker," cried he to Speaker Joseph Wellington Byrns, "again the Grim Reaper has visited this House...
Speaker Byrns appointed a committee of four to attend the funeral, banged his gavel for adjournment, went home to his suite at the Mayflower Hotel. Nine hours later the Grim Reaper paid another call, and lanky, bushy-browed, 66-year-old Joe Byrns lay dead of a cerebral hemorrhage, first Speaker in history to die while Congress was in session...
...What reason have. I to think another similar experience is not just ahead of me, and the Grim Reaper at this moment standing ready to strike? Such uncertainty is maddening, and has rendered me unfit to do any work for which I was trained...