Word: tolles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rocky byroad. Stevens used to hang back until most of the field had harried each other into the ditches and hedges, then he would ride triumphantly in over the carnage. Wily Tim Hyde guided Workman that way until Becher's and the Canal Turn had taken their toll on the second round. Then, when the field was at Valentine's Brook again, he nosed Workman in among the leaders...
Graduation will take an unusually heavy toll this spring with nine Varsity regulars and quite a few capable reserves hitting the diploma trail, leaving Coach Harlow in the position of head repairman of Harvard football. As a result, the spring practice sessions, which will continue until about May 1, will be increasingly important...
...snows melt. And the world is wet with winter's waning blood. Another morrow, and the wind shrieks again, and the cold rains descend, pelting back the vernal equinox to a more remote calendar page. Hour examinations, like so many scalping Comanches, are taking their bi-yearly toll. Concluding winter athletics are vieing desperately with commencing spring activities. Class elections are pitting friend against friend, while honor, influence, and politics set a dizzy pace. Seniors are searching wearily for a life-long job, and many others grope for a summer's employment--which only causes a variety of muddy footsteps...
...morning in March 1932, a swindler named Ivar Kreuger lay on his bed in a Paris apartment, put a bullet through his heart. Kreuger & Toll's subsequent collapse sapped confidence in financial wizardry, helped to precipitate Roosevelt reforms. Last week Kreuger & Toll's U.S. ,estate paid its final dividend to claim-holders, bringing its total payments to $2,743,582. With payments by the Swedish estate, the burnt-up Match King's burnt-up creditors have so far collected a scant $22.000,000 out of original claims...
...from the Chapel tower to Ehler's room in the basement, lasts about five years on the average, and the present one, already black from glove leather, has been in use a year. In the event of a memorial service, Ehler has to climb up in the tower and toll the bell at close quarters. Most of the time he is on duty as janitor of Matthews Hall. Asked if he had no compassion for the Freshmen who daily are so rudely jarred out of their sleep by the five minutes of continuous bell-ringing, Ehler said, "Yes, I think...