Word: band
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirens screamed, 21 bombs (a Presidential salute) exploded, the band played A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight, and the screaming and shouting, whistling and waving, yelling and yowling McNutt Democrats of Indiana indulged themselves in the first hysteria...
...Under new conditions, the American people as a whole nation, the original thirteen States and all the West and South that has grown out of them, is on a mental migration, dissatisfied with old conditions, seeking like the little band that came to Marietta, to create new conditions-of security...
...come out ahead. For every Jew killed two Arabs met death. That young Palestinian Jews might one day decide to fight Arab terrorism with Jewish terrorism had long been feared by leading Zionists. Jews and the governing British alike believed last week that loose in Palestine was a band of young, venge ful Jews, popularly known as Revisionists, who were out to slit Arab throats in reprisal for the 20-year-old Arab hostility to the Jews making the predominantly Arabian Palestine their "homeland." For firing on an Arab bus last spring, a young Revisionist was hanged last month...
Before television can turn its corner, it will have to secure from the FCC the wavelengths needed for commercial operation. With current experiments using a 6,000-kilocycle band for each picture transmitter, televisers would require such a hog's share of useful frequencies, that operators of other short-wave services (wireless communications, aeronautical radio, etc.) would fight. All this has the FCCommissioners pondering...
...cars, hunted in the mountains, searched in the ruins for buried treasure. A little later they went to school in the States, to Lawrenceville and Sewanee, returning during vacations to Batopilas, where in the evenings they promenaded around the plaza with the young men of the town, while the band played and the young ladies eyed their admirers. They danced, trained fighting cocks, learned to drink. Sometimes they got into little scrapes with the police or the townspeople: when Con Shepherd tried to jump his horse over the drummer in the band, and landed in the bass drum; when Grant...