Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This will be a week of coaching by remote control," said Dick Harlow yesterday as hour exams began taking their toll of Varsity football players, and five regulars turned up for afternoon practice...
Next to the torrid Miss C., the hottest thing of the afternoon was the weather. Seventy five degrees brought sweat stains into plain sight after the first ten minutes of play and took a heavy toll of both team's avoirdupois...
...Mississippi-Louisiana toll: at least 100 dead or missing...
...seconds, the Island Queen's fuel tanks went up in two explosions so violent that frightened Pittsburghers cried, "Atom bomb!" Fire swept her decks. No passengers were aboard and many of the boat's 96 crew members, concessionaires and musicians were shopping ashore, but the toll was high: 19 dead, 17 injured...
...meantime, the four-year polio epidemic-which last year mounted to more than 25,000 cases, close to 1916's record-seemed to be easing up. The polio toll so far this year (2,235 cases) is less than one-third of the total for the same period...