Word: went
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bang!" went the watchman's gun. The tombstone fell to the ground and a sheet dropped off the shoulders of one Salvador Espinosa...
...world's highest medical tributes of last week went to two Johns Hopkins' medical men-William Henry Welch and William Holland Wilmer. To Dr. Wilmer the University dedicated the Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute and to Dr. Welch the William H. Welch Medical Library. At the same time, the University inaugurated a Department of the History of Medicine and installed Dr. Welch as its head. Dr. Wilmer. William Holland Wil mer, 66, tall, blondish son of an Episcopal Bishop, is incontestably the greatest eye surgeon the U. S. has ever had.* Every U. S. President from Grover Cleveland...
Cornell could not put anything in Wittmer's way when he snaked a kick-off past them for a touchdown, but after that excitement Princeton rooters sat drearily while red jerseys went through centre, guard, tackle for safe gains. Cornell 13, Princeton...
...Olympic in Southampton, England, last week, carpenters went to work on a bunk. They tore out the end of it, made it much longer. They put a row of thick struts under it to make it bear twice a normal sleeper's weight. The White Star Line took these precautions, not because it had accepted an elephant as a first class passenger, but because a prospective passenger named Primo Carnera is proportioned like the giants of myth. Passenger Camera, an Italian pugilist, planned his trip to the U. S. as a business venture. He felt that he ought...
Certainly there was nothing spectacular last week in the wilted mien of Belgian Banker Leon Delacroix as he went up to bed from the busy ballroom well after midnight. Nearly all the European delegates looked tired as spaniels. Distinguished M. Delacroix affects smartly upturned moustaches. Now they drooped. As he disrobed, the onetime Prime Minister of Belgium and the only original member of the Reparations Commission who remained a member last week sighed to Mme Delacroix, "Hélas, I am not so young...