Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps more important than the loss of ships was damage to the naval base, some of whose oil depots may have gone up in flames. Heaviest military toll was at Hickam Field, where hundreds were killed and injured when bombs hit the great barracks and bombs were reported to have destroyed several hangars full of planes...
...taken any toll of the number of medical students at Harvard or anywhere else, Dr. Burwell said, but, contrary to popular belief, medical students can be drafted...
...weekend at the club's cabin in Jackson, New Hampshire, where they chopped a good part of the winter's wood supply. Two of the men put in a morning of what is probably the first Harvard skiing this year, which they found after walking four miles up the toll road on Mount Washington...
Coach Polly Guyda's Freshman soccer eleven took a 2 to 1 toll of Brown's favored cubs Saturday. Goals by Bob Ripley and Paul Morgan marked the trouncing of the Bruin team which had suffered only one previous defeat. The Yardlings have now won their last three games, and with only Yale to meet, have a record of five triumphs, one tie, and three losses...
...member of a swing band, one of the gravest risks you run is of being killed in an automobile accident. DEATH TOLL SHOCKS BIZ headlined Variety last week. Latest death, after a crash near Conneaut, Ohio, was that of Leon ("Chu") Berry, one of the best hot saxophonists in the business. The musicians' union recently tried to reduce casualties by limiting jumps between dates to 400 miles a day. But with Berry's death the toll of bandsmen fatalities reached more than 100 this year. The hazard is not just a matter of long drives between engagements...