Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Franciscan friars ran for the wreckage, robes held high, to give the last sacrament. Firemen pried at timbers, pulled at protruding arms and legs. Fifteen bodies were found. One of the victims, a twelve-year-old Negro boy, had been killed by a section of iron pipe as he rode his bicycle two blocks away...
Adams, Lowell, and Winthrop mermen rode the crest of the wave last night as the second set of intramural swimming meets were run off in the Indoor Athletic Building. The Bellboys now remain the only undefeated inter-House aquatic aggregation...
Southern Democrats also rode the wind: McKellar's colleague from Tennessee, Tom Stewart, a stooge of Memphis' Boss Crump; Louisiana's John Overton, who had defended Theodore Bilbo six weeks ago; Texas' rambunctious Pappy O'Daniel...
Soragna stepped into his black Packard, rode to the Quai d'Orsay and through the iron gates to the French Foreign Ministry. The diplomats of the victorious Allies were assembled there in the graceful old Salon de 1'Horloge, with its five big windows overlooking the murky Seine, where in 1856 the Crimean War had come to an end, where Clemenceau had ratified the Treaty of Versailles, and where the Kellogg-Briand pact to outlaw war had been signed...
Stand Thevenet, West Point's ace 155-pounder, rated this year's probable Intercollegiate champ at that weight, rode Connie Tyng to a punishing 6 to 0 decision. At the 175-pound weight Bob Claflin, wrestling his first match for the Crimson, lost a 6 to 0 decision to Jack Finley...