Word: armed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago long, angular Headmaster John Wayne (''Big Dick") Richards of Lake Forest (Ill.) Academy had an idea. Throwing his leg over the arm of his chair and scratching the back of his head, he reasoned that secondary education should be more vital, more effective. Last year his idea became a plan (TIME, Aug. 18). Lake Forest's recitation periods were extended to 90 min., 45 min. being devoted to discussion and preparation of the next day's lesson. Staggered and rotating, the school schedule was revised to permit all subjects to share equally the advantageous...
Fall's last few days as a free man were not happy. Clad in pajamas, his face covered with a white stubble, a bottle of strychnine (heart stimulant) beside him, he spent his time in a big arm chair while the women of his household moaned their despair. He chewed an old cigar stump as he told newsmen: "I'll go through with it but it may get me down. It's a relief to have it all settled. I am an innocent man being persecuted. Oh yes, I have many friends in Santa...
...Platteville. Wis., James Rickard, motoring, stuck out his hand to signify that he was going to turn. A zipping auto rushed up up from behind, broke James Rickard's outstretched arm...
Thomas Woodrow Wilson, twelve feet high, stood in the centre of Poznan's municipal park last week pointing to a granite map of Poland with an enormous outstretched arm which promises to be a great convenience to Polish pigeons. Mrs. Wilson, Poland's President Ignacy Moscicki, U. S. Ambassador John North Willys, Auguste Cardinal Hlond, Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Mannes Baruch and Daughter Belle piled wreaths about Statue Wilson's ankles. Out by the gate was a smaller bust of Democrat Wilson's faithful lieutenant Herbert Clark Hoover. President Hoover, now unalterably Republican, sent a message...
...Pittsburgh, police found Genevieve Monarch Miller in a car with three men, her arm bloody with the letters ED MILLER, carved into the flesh by a penknife. Arrested, forced into a hospital, Mrs. Miller explained that she had allowed her husband to carve her. "I love him," said Genevieve Monarch Miller...