Word: blowings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year ago, occurred the abominable assassination of Socialist Deputy Giacomo Matteotti (TIME, June 25 et seq.), which shook the kingdom to its foundations and struck such a blow at the prestige of Benito Mussolini that he is only now recovering from...
Last week, King Alfonso left Madrid, journeyed to Barcelona. En route, a large bomb, intended to blow up the royal train, was found on the railway tracks...
...active police became still more active, discovered a third bomb, in- tended to blow up the royal train as it passed through a tunnel on its return journey to Madrid. Fourteen arrests were made, but each of the prisoners denied all knowledge of the plot...
...Rising Tide of Culture-"They remind me," says the "doctor," "these modern huntresses of culture, of sportsmen who, in their anxiety, get so close to their quarry that they blow it to smithereens with both barrels." Culture is knowledgeable interest, not the emotional deflection that Americans, especially their women, seek. Prosperity has released so many naive intellects "that in no other period in history, and in no other race, has virtue been so curious about her sisters." But, culture being reflected in manners, these naive ones are of good report. "They are developing new resources in human intercourse." The Lady...
Medford High, with two and one half legs on the championship cup will face almost overwhelming odds from Brockton High. Last year the cohorts from the shoe city deadlocked with the Greater Boston team and this year seem likely to outpoint the forces from Medford which received a severe blow to their chances for victory when their captain, Henry Hormel, was injured this week. Latest advices indicate that this powerful sprinter and broad jumper will enter the meet today, but his chances for making anything like the performances expected of him have been greatly lessened...