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...Senator from California, campaigning near Mount Clemens, approached a railroad crossing in an automobile, with associates. A train approached, the safety gates sank across the way. The driver of the automobile applied the brakes, the car skidded, smashed through the gates. The engineer put on the air brake. As the train ground to a stop the car slid to within a few feet of the engine...
...from Box 51 when some one saw flames and sparks issuing from a chimney in Matthews Hall. But the bathrobe clad curiosity seekers returned disappointed to their beds; the ringing of the fire apparatus, the raucous, joyous cheering of the students, the laboring of the heavy engines as they sank into the mud, were all for nothing...
...Congressional Medal of Honor around the neck of Henry Breault, torpedoman, second class, U. S. N. On Oct. 28, 1923, Breault was aboard the submarine O-5 sunk in Limon Bay off the Panama Canal in collision with the merchantship Abangares. He reached the deck before the submarine sank, discovered that one of his comrades was trapped below. He rushed down, shut a water-tight door and remained with his shipmate until the submarine was raised by a salvage party 38 hours later...
...decided to have a fight at the Football Stadium in Buenos Aires. Benito Mussolini cabled Spalla: "Keep the Italian colors aloft." Thirty thousand Argentinians went out to see the fight. The fighters hit each other for 13 and a fraction rounds, until finally only Firpo hit Spalla, and Spalla sank by the ropes, and they counted...
...first Freshman major sport victory over Yale since the Blue 1925 crew sank at New London in the spring of 1922 was gained Saturday when the Crimson sextet continually outplayed the Eli first-year men until the final figures on the Arena scoreboard read 4-0 for Harvard. This victory closed Harvard's first undefeated hockey season since 1914 and the only game on the ice that Freshmen stickmen have won from the Bulldog first-year men since...