Word: arsenal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wembley Stadium near London, King-Emperor George V and 90,000 rooters also saw a socker game last week. Eleven Welshmen from Cardiff defeated eleven Englishmen from Woolwich Arsenal (London), 1 to 0, thereby winning the championship of. Great Britain. No riots ensued, even though 250,000 people crowded around the stadium hoping...
...bill appropriating $2,341,000 for the rebuilding of the Picatinny Army Arsenal at Lake Denmark, N. J., blown up last year at a cost of 22 lives, $84,000,000 worth of Government property (TIME, July...
TIME will tell. LIEUT. L. A. ELLIOTT, U. S. Edgewood Arsenal, Md. Good. But TIME has already used it occasionally. - ED. To Subscriber E. B. Whittlesey of Scofield, Ore., $10. Early in November he submitted the slogan There is no time like the present There is no present like TIME. Said TIME on Nov. 8: "Let other subscribers submit slogans. To that subscriber who, before Dec. 1, produces a better than Subscriber Whittlesey's: $10. Otherwise, the $10 goes to Original Subscriber Whittlesey. - ED." 167 slogans were submitted - of which the above printed ones are specimens...
...John Brown, white man from "Bleeding Kansas," felt that he was destined to free Negro slaves. He must have a citadel. So, with only 18 men, he captured the U. S. arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Va., and was in turn captured by Robert E. Lee. John Brown was hanged. Fifteen hundred soldiers stood by to prevent disorder. Abolitionists called him a martyr; Southerners, a murderous fanatic. The gap in the Union widened...
Meanwhile up in Peekskill near the Bear Mountain Bridge across the Hudson the gentry shiver each night as they prepare to go to bed. They fear a repetition of the Dover disaster from the Navy arsenal at lona Island, a mile away. Perhaps Manhattan citizens tremble as they recall the terrors of Dover if they know about the arsenal at nearby Sandy Hook. Other death dealing overstocked plants include the arsenals near Pittsburgh, Springfield, Mass., Augusta, Fort Monroe, Va., Philadelphia, Rock Island, Watertown, Mass., San Antonio and many another town...