Word: sided
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rough outdoor ice and the absence of side boards hampered play until the final frame when the visiting offensive finally began to click. Curtiss netted a pass from Gray in 3:36 and Fuller tied the score on a solo dash by slipping a hard shot past goalie Hanford...
...away or melt like a fog. Anyhow, why die by inches? Why this flurry of self-preservation at such a cost? No, 'tis better to die there calmly--to be run over in one quick piece--with quiet dignity to undergo the roller and come out on the other side a mere blob of jelly but retaining still a spark of self respect...
...quick way for newspaper readers to follow the fortunes of Spain's war is to note on which side correspondents are allowed near the front, for neither Rightists nor Leftists like to let the press come near when they are losing. But last week's end Rightist chances in the Battle of Teruel were bright enough for them to allow five carloads of correspondents to approach the firing line...
Another veteran of the Ethiopian campaign but on the Italian side was the third casualty, hulking, grey-haired Edward J. Neil, 37, whose boast it was that neither he nor his father had ever worked for anyone but the Associated Press. Long-time a Manhattan sports writer, he won a medal and the title Commendatore from Marshal Badoglio in Ethiopia, went on night raids with Arab sharpshooters in Palestine, reported King George's Coronation, and scooped the world on the Rightist capture of Bilbao by filing his story under fire...
...above the 10,000-ft. peaks around them. They attempted to turn back. Then, eyewitnesses said, the three planes seemed to be blown together; there was a violent crash as they momentarily interlocked, a burst of flame. Like two stones the Santa Maria and Pinta fell to earth, crashed side by side in the bottom of a shallow creek. On fire, the Nina struggled a few seconds, crashed a few hundred yards from its companions. All seven occupants of the three planes were instantly killed, those in the Nina burned beyond recognition...