Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Convention to do away with the "rotten borough" system. The filibuster lasted from January to June, with frequent clashes, several of which went to the point of physical violence. Finally in June, at the end of a heated session of 50 hours' duration, someone placed a bromine gas bomb behind the Lieutenant Governor's chair. The Democrats said it was a plot to kill Mr. Toupin. The Republicans said that their lives were not safe...
...days of war when all men's minds must belong, willy-nilly, to their country. The New Republic, equally impious, destroys his hypothesis that high taxes restrict individual beneficence toward education. On all sides Doctor Butler's pet theories are bombarded with havoc. But evidently he has found a bomb-proof shelter, from which he mocks his adversaries. From the solid materials of scholarship and reflection, he has built an edifice of authority within which he sits untroubled by the blood-cravings of the hostile mob without...
...Blister" or "Bulge" is a device resorted to in remodeling older ships to protect them from torpedo, mine or bomb explosions alongside. In new ships many watertight bulkheads keep the ship afloat in such a case. In older ships, by building a sort of outer hull (the "blister" or "bulge") outside the regular hull, a similar protection is achieved...
...round of luncheons and dinners over, the party moved on to Santiago de Cuba by train. A scare was provided by the discovery of a bomb under a railway bridge. Guards were called out to examine and guard all other bridges over which the train was to pass and eventually the party arrived safely...
...Nelson, B.C, members of the Russian religious colony of Doukhobors kept nightly vigils at the grave of their late leader, Peter Veregin, murdered by a bomb while riding in a railroad train last month (TIME, Nov. 17). So great was the Doukhobors' faith in Veregin (many passionately believe him to have been a reincarnation of Jesus of Nazareth), that they expected a sign from his spirit to guide them in their choice of a new leader...