Word: walking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sided victory of the Yale Phi Beta Kappa baseball team over the Cambridge Cerebelli comes as a refreshing aftermath to our slaughter in the "brain battle" of a year ago, when Harvard won by a system of cross-country scoring. Yale can once more raise her head and walk proudly among the colleges, as she contemplates the dual renaissance of intellect and physique which dawns on New Haven. Mother Yale has once more taken to developing well-rounded...
Pulmotors were carried into the building from the roof and applied to the victims as headway was made into the smoke-filled rooms. A few of those revived were able to walk to ladders and descend. The great majority were carried out. The lawns adjoining were littered with the bodies of the dead and dying, all yellow from the gas. Rescue squads worked over them with pulmotors. Only those who received immediate oxygen treatment survived. One man who had escaped said, "The gas didn't bother me. Help the others who are dying." Five minutes later he collapsed...
...gassed. It's film gas," he cried on seeing the victims. "Clear the way. Give them more air. Have we oxygen enough? Firemen, more firemen!" Dr. John Phillips, another of the founders of the Clinic left the wrecked building after working long among the victims. He started to walk home, collapsed...
...leaving Charles, 12, and his sister Margaret, 10, stranded 118 miles from their parents in Manhattan. "How are you going to get to New York?" asked the ship captain, who wanted to put Margaret in some Wilmington household and ship Charles as a cabin boy. "We'll walk," said Charles, and they did, in two weeks, to Battery Park, Manhattan...
...would not be surprising to see some hitherto unhalled oarsmen given an opportunity to set the beat. With P. H. Watts '31 a questionable factor when it comes to the endurance necessary for the long trial with Yale, and Swaim not showing the vital rythm a dark horse may walk off with the honors during the coming practice session...