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...group found over 6000 artifacts, implements, and household articles, among which was a toboggan. The expedition also located many human skeletons in the mounds--none, however, of the "original American." Carter said the search for the "original American" is a secondary purpose on all such surveys...
...dawn next morning a rescue party of experienced climbers set off up the mountain. It was mid-afternoon when they came back, pulling a lifeless, blanket-covered form on a toboggan. The vicar came out to meet them. Head bare, his overcoat collar turned up around his neck, he read from a prayer book: "Into thy hands, O merciful Saviour, we commend the soul of thy servant, now departed from the body . . ." Then he bent over the toboggan and wept...
Leather into Gas. A graduate of Harvard in 1929, Fox started selling securities in Boston, and "caught the tail of a toboggan just as it started over the top of the hill." He spent his evenings getting a law degree at Harvard, got his start in real estate in the early '40s, buying low and selling high. One such property was a Manhattan building at 61 Broadway, which he bought at a bargain in 1944, sold...
...others scrambled out of the half-submerged car, they realized what had happened. Three spans of the 2,020-ft. bridge had collapsed and crashed through the ice. Before traffic could be stopped, three more cars plunged over the edge of the broken bridge. Rescue workers slid a toboggan across the ice to help Lefebvre and his customers. But nothing could be done for the four people in the other cars. They were trapped and dead, 40 ft. down in the icy black river...
...candidate, Roosevelt dared to ask President Eliot how he would vote in the 1900 election. Later as president, FDR wrote the CRIMSON editorials, including one blasting the spiritless football team, another describing the Yard dorms as firetraps, and a third suggesting that the new Stadium be turned into a toboggan slide...