Word: sankes
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...that accelerated the progress of the ball in an eccentric fashion. The Crimson players seemed tired from their train journey and made no concerted effort to repulse Amherst's individual rushes. The aiming of shots by the Lord Jeffs was of a brilliant nature. Wilson, outside right for Amherst, sank penalty 30-yard penalty kick in the Crimson net, convincing score...
...gaping hole stove in its side. Fortunately for those rowing, Head Coach Brown, and Coach Heard of the 150 pound crews were both nearby, and succeeded in getting all the oarsmen into their launches and towing the shells the short distance to the Newell boathouse before they sank...
There had come a lull. Creatures crept from wreckage. They pawed dazedly over tangled debris, stumbled on dead monster fishes, sought kin-bodies. Down in the harbor the waves scarcely abated- wrenched, tore, harried, sank ships. Over in rich idle Hollywood, one lone building, the Masonic Temple, stood drunkenly. As if enraged by such impertinence, the hurricane struck again...
...orchestra was playing "Tell Me, Pretty Maiden" from Florodora when Harry K. Thaw shot Stanford White. The architect, who had started to rise when he saw Mr. Thaw coming toward him, sank back into his chair with an expression of sudden weariness while a tide of slow vermilion spread like spilled wine across the bosom of his evening shirt. That was in June, 1906. Now Harry Thaw has written a book...
...week, William Clark, Negro, though employed by us indirectly (through a contractor), got a chance to be mentioned in the Bulletin. He was working 30 ft. underground on our new Eighth Avenue subway (the excavations for which unfortunately blocked fire engines from a blazing tenement last week) when he sank deeper and deeper into a huge sand bin. Walter Strong saw Mr. Clark's head disappear under the sand. With great presence of mind, Mr. Strong shoved a pipe down to Mr. Clark, who was thus enabled to breathe until dug out an hour and a quarter later...