Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clock on Oct. 17, during a heavy cannonading from the American guns, Washington's men saw a British drummer mount the enemy's parapet. His beating could not be heard for the cannon; but, when a British officer climbed up beside him waving a white kerchief, it became evident the drummer was sounding a parley. All around the lines firing ceased; the British officer was blindfolded and led behind the American lines where General Washington received Lord Cornwallis' request that hostilities be suspended and a joint commission be named to draw up terms of surrender...
...pitiful love story draws to a close, but no longer does he seek surcease in death and oblivion. Originally we saw him in his lodgings, alone with his tragedy, going through his paces, leering at himself in a circle of mirrors, cackling in hideous laughter, unable longer to endure his torment, he stabs himself...
Died. Laurenus Clark Seelye, 87, President Emeritus of Smith College; in Northampton, Mass. He saw Smith's enrollment grow under his guidance from 14 girls in 1873 to 1,635 in 1910, when he retired. His definition of what a graduate of a woman's college should be was "intelligent gentlewoman...
...burning leaves or breaking the ground on little farms in Jersey, on fields beside rutted lanes in Delaware where few travelers come, heard, one cool morning last week, a humming and a drumming in the sky, looked up, saw over their heads a great silver shape that flew south as the birds were flying, as the grey geese, the sleek ducks that leave their marshy beds and beat away with the frost at their backs. The Shenandoah it was, which had on that cool morning left its hangar at Lakehurst to start on the longest flight ever attempted...
...never saw a Harvard team show so much fight," said Coach Cleo O'Donnell of the Holy Cross eleven to a CRIMSON reporter in the locker building after Saturday's game...