Word: armed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Greenbrier County jail, came to a halt. A group of 60 masked men filed up to the jail door. The keeper was summoned, seized, forced to give up his keys. Shivering in their underclothes, Jackson & Banks were taken to the edge of town, strung up to the cross arm of a telephone pole, side by side. Someone gave an order. Stepping back from the pole, the mob raised guns to shoulders, riddled its victims with a roaring volley which awakened the sleeping town...
Harvard's defenses will be given in charge to McGregor and Palmer with deGive guarding the net. None of these selections, however, are more than tentative. Crosby and Gleason should see much action as the season progresses. The latter is not in tonight's lineup due to a fractured arm, sustained in the 7 to 1 rout of Technology last week. Ware and Hale, goal tenders are also striving to earn a place in the regular starting lineup...
...preview in Chicago, 27-year-old Inventor Leonarde Keeler tried out on two members of the audience his "Lie-Detector" which police have found handy for questioning recalcitrant suspects. The '"Lie-Detector" is a device which, by means of arm and chest bands, records on a paper chart changes in blood pressure and pulse action, presumably resulting from emotion. At last week's test, it worked so well when attached to two De Paul University students that Inventor Keeler said: "The results are . . . even more pronounced than in many cases in which suspects are being questioned in connection...
...Xavier, one of St. Ignatius Loyola's associates in founding the Society of Jesus, is regarded by his church as the greatest missionary since the time of the Apostles. The church in Goa was made a shrine to his memory, but the Society of Jesus secured his right arm in 1614, placed it in the Jesuit mother church, Rome's Gesu...
...than many footballers (20) he is likely to follow his brother Everett to Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship next year. Younger than Derryberry is rolypoly Herman Hickman, 230 lb., 19-year-old guard, who "once took out the whole side of an opposing line with one sweep of his arm...