Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although Yale has shown a remarkable ability to come from behind and score, three hard games in succession have taken their toll of injuries, and have been constant drains upon her reserve strength. Therefore, Army is figured to triumph over the Eli eleven tomorrow by the margin of one touchdown in a game which will be as spectacular as any of its predecessors. Possessing as it does, a backfield containing last year's All-American, Wilson, and the equally famous Hewitt, formerly of Pittsburgh, the Army will send a team on the field determined to achieve its first victory...
...span, borne on 18-inch cables, is 1,623 ft. long, and dangles 155 ft. over the Hudson River about six miles north of Peekskill, between Anthony's Nose and Bear Mountain. With its approaches, it cost $6,000,000 and will be open after January as a toll bridge. Except for the railway bridge at Poughkeepsie, it is the only vehicular bridge across the Hudson south of Albany...
Having spent three years juggling with the world's finances, training armies, building colossal floating fortresses of impregnable steel, Hogarth blew up a few liners, destroyed the British fleet, established a toll (sea rent) on all passing vessels, finally took over England in the capacity of regent, in order to put into operation his panacea for the ills of the world-a system of land tenure by the nation, not by the individual. The Jews he commanded to return to Palestine...
Football takes a heavy toll of baseball veterans. Captain Hammond, second baseman, M. A. Check Jr. '26, and A. W. Samborski '25, catchers, Philip Spalding '25, pitcher, and A. G. Rogers '26, outfielder, are lettermen who are on the gridiron squad. C. L. Todd Jr. '26, hard-hitting outfielder, and J. E. Toulmin '26, pitcher, are the only "R" wearers available for the fall workout, but several capable substitutes should report. They include H. E. Slayton '26 and R. M. Rice '25, infielders, R. W. Cordingley '25, pitcher, and G. W. Burgess, outfielder, from the University squad of a year...
...enter resorts under their own power, and proceed to the inexpensive hospitality of the "auto camp." Food they obtain from neighboring farmers, who in consequence are first to defend the camping motor tourist. Moreover, no one wants to stay put anywhere for even a week, and the landlord's toll is apt to be nightly rather than by the week or month...