Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week from Chile to Buenos Aires stuck in a snowdrift on the Andes Mountains and had to turn back to Los Andes. Nor was he more than slightly startled when, as he strolled the streets of that town, bored by the oppressive company of his persona] detective, he saw a rumdum reel out of a saloon, strike a companion with a stone, receive, in return, a knife-thrust in the stomach. He caught the sagging body in his arms, directed, after a solicitous inquiry, that it be removed to a hospital...
...Undeterred, the brave savages withdrew, circled, charged again and again . . . from 4 a. m. till 10 a. m The last volley saw the Druses riding off carrying dead and wounded comrades. . . The Druses, with their faith in reincarnation, believe those they were obliged to leave mangles by modern weapons have lost their souls as well as their bodies. . . . There were no French casualties...
...beginning of the first holdup, but when I looked up there were two women, apparently drunk, who had been in the grasp of two men. The women had broken away, and, as I watched, the two men ran up an alley and disappeared . . . About two blocks farther I saw a man who had been pinioned by two other men. One of them was behind him and had hold of his wrist, and the other had a hand in the man's pocket. . A woman came running up, and as the hold-up men disappeared she took the victim away...
...tutorial abilities of Sam Rosenbaum, the list of Yale graduates in and around the Class of 1907 might have been much smaller than it turned out. And having been graduated, Sam Rosenbaum, no man to underrate his abilities, saw no reason why succeeding classes should deminish for want of his services. Not only did he see a fat living in it. He was "a good Yale man." And as the tutoring classes he conducted around examination times grew with the years in size and fame, he constituted himself "brain coach" to many a thick-witted Yale athlete, gratis...
...Presently I saw that for each student the course was what the particular subordinate instructor made it. Upon him depended, so far as that course and that student were concerned, whether Harvard University was a failure or a success...