Word: roped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reward was offered to any citizen of Ihlamour who would allow himself to be lowered 50 feet down the well to grab Yusuf's duck with his bare hands. The first volunteer jammed ignominiously when the well bore unexpectedly narrowed 30 feet below the surface. The rope broke, he was rescued only with difficulty...
...Dickinson College (Carlisle, Pa.), one Thomas Gibb, 19, paralytic Freshman, was initiated into the Alpha Chi Rho fraternity. Told to let himself down from a three-story window by a rope looped to the sash, he climbed out. The rope slipped, gave way, tumbling him to the ground. His parents, in China, were notified that he had suffered a broken hip, wrist, ankle, that he might die. One William Billow, likewise a Freshman, likewise a fraternity neophyte, was told to go to Harrisburg and get Governor John S. Fisher's signature. He was arrested breaking into a window...
...frightened passengers. Their cars were shunted off into the subway's yards. There detectives piled them into patrol wagons, took them to the police station where their names were recorded. One engineering Freshman, a Henry T. Conway of Lowell, Mass., was discovered with a bit of bell-rope in his pocket. He was later fined...
...expunged from the Record when he protested against the marriages of Negroes and Whites?' It will be said 'Yes, he's the same fellow.' 'Well,' they will say, 'We'll give it to him' "? here Senator Heflin executed an encircling gesture with his hand as if tying a rope tight around his throat?" 'in the neck...
...European trip last year was a comparative success. Two climbs of note were made, one taking 15 and the other six and a half hours. An interesting feature of the latter trip was one group of three, called a "rope", which made the trip in tuxedos...