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...theory that appeared the soundest was that some one threw a match out of a window in Matthews Hall late in the night, which was carried across to Massachusetts Hall by the wind. According to Mr. C. R. Apted, Superintendent of CareTakers, this could easily have happened, as the wind was due east all night and might well have carried the cigarette across the 60-foot interval...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: $5000 FIRE DAMAGES MASSACHUSETTS HALL | 4/7/1924 | See Source »

Upon the field of honor went the students, each with a hand grenade firmly fixed between the thumb and fingers of the right hand. When the umpire dropped his white handkerchief the duellists threw their bombs? both failed to explode...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Hand Grenades | 3/17/1924 | See Source »

...Pound Class.--Hereford (M I T) threw F. B. Hill '26 (H) in 3 minutes and 40 seconds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIVE CRIMSON MATMEN IN INTERCOLLEGIATE FINALS | 3/15/1924 | See Source »

...bouts with the Brown and M. I. T. substitutes. Milton Krook '25, University champion in the 115-pound class, won the decision from Field of Brown, and in the next bout, A. J. Bornstein '25 defeated Cummings of M. I. T. T. W. Hoag '25, in the unlimited class, threw Coleman of M. I. T. in an exciting bout after seven minutes and five seconds of fast wrestling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIVE CRIMSON MATMEN IN INTERCOLLEGIATE FINALS | 3/15/1924 | See Source »

Said Former President Alexander Kerensky (at Prague), he whom the Bolsheviki threw out of power in 1917 after he, in his turn, had cast out the Romanovs: "I approve recent wholesale de jure recognition of Soviet Russia. All democratic states, even though disagreeing with Russian Communism, will be well advised to have authorized representatives at Moscow to protect their interests, if these should be violated by Bolshevik principles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Invaluable | 3/10/1924 | See Source »

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