Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Football, the most strenuous of American out-door sports, claimed five victims during the 1919 season. The number of deaths--the smallest in years--was five less than in 1918, and seven under the toll of two years ago. There were 18 lives lost during the 1916 season...
...course of the past year with its tremendous changes in life and institutions the University has been called upon to bear as heavy a toll of its finest figures as perhaps any academic organization in the country. While the war casualties are still appearing we have the news of the death, first of a distinguished graduate and now of a cherished teacher. Any attempt to express our sorrow or adequately to appreciate their lives must end in failure. Greatness we may attribute to a historical figure. It is not enough to assign to one we knew personally and admired...
...exacted from the ranks of University graduates and undergraduates a heavier toll during the past winter than it did throughout the first six months following the entrance of the United States into the European conflict. The University War Record Office announces that since October the list of casualties among the University's men engaged in active service contains 12 deaths, as compared with 10 in the months from April 6 through September and 36 before the declaration of war by the United States. This brings the losses of University men since August, 1914, to a total...
...circles around it. As is to be expected, comfort will not be found in anything built at the Ford plant. Much less will Wilhelm II rejoice at the thought of these pests among his imperial submersibles, for he can no longer rest assured of his weekly and ever-weakening toll of Allied vessels. Per chance Kultur will make him scoff when he hears a flivver manufacturer is going to check his naval warfare, but more likely he will increase the number or improve the type of his underwater raiders. In spite of baffled expectations to spend the last few winters...
Taylor, A., '15, Taylor, G. W., '18, Thurber, J. P., '17, Toll, C. H., '05, Toppan...