Word: seventh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...policemen came and took him away. He said his name was Kelly-Joseph Kelly-but he didn't know why he had killed Hector A. Orta. ¶ Alexander Cook, 41, a mailman, father of four, was making his last round of the day on Manhattan's lower Seventh Avenue. It was cold and windy, and he had his face buried in his collar. Above him, on the roof of a 15-story apartment building, Mrs. Natalie Biro, a blonde, 36-year-old radio actress, was getting ready to commit suicide. She had tied her hair in a kerchief...
...Jump!" Then the people who desperately wanted to live began to die. While firemen yelled "Don't jump!" a *He sold it three years later, stayed on after that as a non-paying guest. woman appeared at a seventh-floor window, threw out her small son, her smaller daughter, then jumped herself. Another woman leaped feet first (as they all did), hit a fireman who was carrying a woman down a ladder and swept them with her to the street. The craze spread, and body after body hurtled down, hitting with dull, leaden sounds. As they fell, slowly...
...side. Around him, guests huddled and crawled on ledges to escape deadly gas and smoke, dangled from sheet ropes over fire-belching windows, and leaped for safety nets. Some hit with such force that the nets were torn from firemen's hands. As a girl jumped from a seventh-floor window she gasped: "I hope I live! I hope I live!" Despite a broken...
Three of the nine Varsity opponents this fall found niches in the gridiron statistics Hall of Fame, Yale placing three times and Holy cross and Princeton each once. The Elis were eighth in total offense, eighth in rushing offense, and seventh in rushing defense. Holy Cross, for the second straight year, topped the nation's pass defenders and the Tigers rated ninth spot for passing offense...
...Conference also formulated a round-robin schedule of dual meets among the eight schools of the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League. With membership at full strength for the first time since the war, the League will climax this year's activities in the Seventh Annual Individual Championship Meet at the Yale pool on March 21 end 22. With its athletic, building destroyed by fire, Princeton has been forced to transfer all of its home meets with league opponents to the latters' tanks...