Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Times Square), dodging the used electric light bulbs that Madridians store away for this occasion, whirring a wooden zambomba which gives out a deafening clack, and brandishing a bunch of grapes over his head (you eat twelve grapes as the New Year comes in, one for each stroke of the clock...
Died. Mal S. Daugherty, 86, smalltown banker and political poohbah, one of the last surviving figures in the Teapot Dome scandal; after a stroke; in Washington Court House, Ohio. Brother of Harding's Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty, Mai refused to open his books to the Senate in 1924 (he was suspected of having part of the payoff funds on deposit), became a pariah in his own town after his conviction for misusing bank funds...
...Three weeks ago, following a "small stroke," 68-year-old H. L. Mencken was admitted to Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital. Last week the hospital reported "slow improvement...
...Wood will oppose M.I.T.'s best swimmer, Pitler, in the 220-yard back-stroke, and Chuck Hoolzer and Larry Ward will swim against Tech's Polletier in the 200-yard breaststroke, the two events in which M.I.T. claims its greatest strength...
...three original Water routines. Besides the tango act, Ann Clark '49, president of the Dolphins, and Christine Bosshard '51 will do a waltz duet. Part of the act will consist of waltz duet. Part of the act will consist of shadow swimming: one girl doing a back stroke on the surface while the other cuts underwater with a reverse stroke...