Word: tolles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...numbers 4,000, manning 30 steam trawlers which set out last month, 30 schooners which set sail last fortnight. The Church bestows its most solemn blessings on the fleet, with full consciousness that some of the boats may never return from the North Atlantic. Although the death toll diminishes steadily, last year four schooners were lost. Of the seven ships which have successively been sent out by the Société des Oeuvres de Mer, two have foundered...
...Heavy Toll From Graduation...
...daughter went to Hollywood where he was to make three homespun pictures for Universal. He waited around three months while the company tried to whip together a story suitable to it and him. Meantime, Universal was not only Daying Guest's salary but $1,200 a week toll charges so that he could broadcast from his Chicago outlet. "My parents always told me it was impossible to get something for nothing," he wrote his son, a Free Press reporter. "It's hard for me to admit they were wrong." After Christmas Poet Guest returned to Detroit...
...from the top. This year's party, toughened alpinists all, includes Climber Smythe and two others who have had a taste of Everest. Permission for the climb was obtained from the Tibetan Government, but Lhasa monks muttered predictions that the gods of holy Everest would add to the toll of 14 lives taken on previous attempts...
What is more important is that the universal sentiment throughout the country is for more stringent driving laws. The United States has finally realized that the huge toll of motoring deaths which result annually from speeding, carelessness and intoxication are unnecessary, and can and should be stopped. The support given by the Harvard undergraduate body to this movement is both encouraging and indicative that propaganda of such a nature throughout the college will have a decidede effect in the next few years...