Word: ans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Not in hope but in despair, in the weighing of different deaths, in a whisper passed with a plate at mess, along a file at exercise, in a package slipped under the table in the visitors' room, a stolen knife, a gun under the grey clothes?so prison breaks begin...
It was 11 a. m., the time when 200 segregated prisoners, under special watch for taking part in the attempted break and prison-burning less than five months ago (TIME, Aug. 5), were supposed to be having lunch. They were not eating. Some of them had handcuffed six guards and...
At twilight the machine guns on the walls were quiet, still waiting. A thousand people and a regiment of militia were at the gates. An airplane droned overhead. Death came for the rioters across the yard, up into the cell block, past the barricades which they had piled up with...
Both monopolies Mr. Young would put under strict government regulation. He recommended that, if private enterprise were not to be trusted, then, as an alternative, the U. S. government itself should undertake the external communications monopoly. Existing laws make such mergers illegal; Mr. Young would have them quickly changed.
The Sky Hawk (Fox). In the grey belly of a Zeppelin over London, bombers work quietly. Through the night drop the bombs, making fountains and spraying plants of fire in the narrow streets, shaking the theatre where a chorus dances and the bar rooms and restaurants where people are eating...