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Word: bomb (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Washington's Birthday in the Square was disturbed by inquires yesterday, but the important question was not "Who chopped down the cherry tree?" but "Who put the bomb on the stair-way in 1286 Massachusetts Avenue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mystery Bomb Found on Stair Of Mass. Ave. Establishment | 2/23/1939 | See Source »

...crudely made bomb was found early yesterday morning by "Sammie" an employee of B. Mark, clothier, who immediately called the police. Mark shares the space in 1286 Massachusetts Avenue with the Wolff Tutoring school...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mystery Bomb Found on Stair Of Mass. Ave. Establishment | 2/23/1939 | See Source »

...there were not already enough Irishmen in Britain to worry the bobbies, 5,000 more crossed over at week's end for the England-Eire rugby match at Twickenham. A bomb was found on the steamer, some 900 Irishmen were questioned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: S-Plot | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...Prime Minister Eamon de Valera, once an I. R. A. leader himself, has kept discreetly quiet, content to disregard the bomb-planting of his old cronies so long as they did not plant any under him. Last week he received a letter threatening violence if he did not join up. The Prime Minister then instructed his Minister of Justice to rush through Eire's Parliament bills giving the Government power to arrest suspected extremists on suspicion, execute them after a summary trial before secret military tribunals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: S-Plot | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

What with the bomb planting, the brave manifestoes and the likes of the Sinn Fein gathering in the hills, these are times when an Irishman in England could do with a word or two first-hand from the old country. But the voice of Erin, Radio-Eireann, from its 100-kilowatt transmitter in Athlone, is having the devil's own time making itself heard anywhere at all. The villains outshouting her are three, and the loudest of these is Klaipeda, in Lithuania. Klaipeda's station LYY, a radio holdout, has steadfastly refused to join the Union Internationale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Interference | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

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