Word: tolles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...DeSilva believes that the dismal U. S. toll of injury, death and property loss exacted by automobile accidents (TIME, Aug. 12) is largely due to the fact that entirely too many drivers take their driving for granted, fail to assess and try to improve their skill as they would if they were fishermen or golfers or chess players. He scoffs at the typical test for an operator's license, in which a bored policeman rides slowly around the block with the candidate, who meets no emergency and performs nothing more difficult than turning around in a dead-end street...
...guillotine takes its deadly toll as The Terror rules Paris. But Citizen Robespierre is annoyed. Victim after victim slips through his fingers and crosses the channel to England, all through the infernal machinations of that "Damned elusive Pimpernel." Into the background of eighteenth century France and England Leslie Howard fits like a package of cigarettes in cleophane. As the uncannily clever schemer disguised as an old hag, as the suave nobleman who courts, death to save his friends, the nobles of the French court, as the fastidious fop who advises the Prince of Wales on the proper jabeau, Howard...
...dawn the death toll stood at 14. Teacher, bus driver and the pupils in the front of the bus were bruised but safe. Said Driver Line: "I didn't see the train. . . ." Police charged him with manslaughter...
German measles has taken its toll in crew as elsewhere and Bobbie Cutler, stroke of the second Varsity boat, was unable to report yesterday and is not expected to appear until near the end of next week. Ced Francis, stroke of last year's combination crew, has been promoted from the third boat to take his place, and Roger Cutler, stroke of last year's Freshman shell, has been moved from his position as number two man in the second crew and will replace Francis as stroke of the third...
Probation has taken a heavy toll in the ranks of the Freshmen, with three men ruled ineligible. Ham Turner's ample shoes will be filled by Dave Gardner, a tackle on the Freshman team last fall, he has developed a hard punch this winter, and is slated as a winner by Henry Lamar...