Word: wakely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Theodore ("Tiger") Flowers, Negro, 32, onetime (Feb.-Dec., 1926) middleweight boxing champion of the world; in Manhattan; unexpectedly, after an operation for the removal of a growth over his left eye. Rightly known as "the Georgia Deacon," he uttered as his last words: "If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take...
...sense of oppression heralded the coming of the tornado. There was a dull drumming sound as of innumerable wings being flapped high in the air, and the swirl of black dust about the sky. Then a spiral of loosely woven clouds headed downward, an inky blackness in its wake, and the twister began its devastation...
...Gene is stabbing Jack off ... oho . . . Jack wandering around Gene . . . Dempsey drives a hard left under the heart. . . . Jack pounded the back of Tunney's head with four rights. . . . Gene put a terrific right . . . hardest blow of the fight . . . Gene beginning to wake up ... like a couple of wild animals . . . Gene's body red . . . hits Dempsey a terrific right to the body . . . Jack is groggy. . . . Jack leads hard left. . . . Tunney seems almost wobbling . . . they have been giving Dempsey smelling salts in his corner. . . . Some of the blows that Dempsey hits make this ring tremble. . . . Tunney is DOWN . . . down from...
...miles the tempest careered before it had expended its mighty energy. At Yokohama, northeast, a cyclone scurried, twisting 'and twirling, in its wake, howling too. Off went tin roofs, shutters, sun-blinds; down came chimneys, many small houses and buildings; and over went freight cars. So rapidly went the roaring blast (60 yards wide) that many people working indoors were not aware of the huge whirlwind until it was raging 100 yards or so away. And so great was the debris that the railways were blocked for hours...
...years hale and strong, a sturdy pacer to his executives at their work. He can do so, Barron's Weekly revealed last week, by means of a trick of recuperation that he has developed. He can go to sleep at will-for minutes or hours, to wake up later refreshed. While traveling in his company's airplane Stanolind he takes his naps...